Where in the home are your backups?

epninety

My setup :-

Nightly backups run onto a HDD in a removeable caddy.
I have a second identical HDD stored a few miles away at a place I visit a couple of times a month - this could be parents house, self-storage locker or just your office desk.
When I know I'm going to visit, I pull the drive from the PC and take it with me, when I return I bring the other HDD back. Both 'travelling' HDDs live in watertight transport cases.
So there are three copies of my data, and they are never all in the same place.

I have also have 'archive' backups of things like photos and paperwork in a fire safe, but I'm not rigorous about creating or updating them - just 'as and when', and the safe was bought mainly to protect paperwork, but bought one specc'ed for data just in case.

That all sounds a bit OTT, but it's relatively cheap, and takes almost no effort to manage. If the backup starts to get close to disc capacity, I simply buy two new generation HDDs, at least twice the size of the last.
Companies in Japan have run into problems because their 'geographic backups' were caught up in the same disaster as their main systems - distance is good!

colin79666

Daily Windows backups of important files to my nas.
Weekly super important files to Amazon S3 using Cloudberry backup which encrypts before leaving my machine.
Full system images from time to time onto an external usb3 drive.