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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I think you could have the redundant backup on the cloud as well. Ie mine are also on one drive in addition to Google photos. Plus shutterfly has the ones from the annual photo books, plus the physical photo books. I think physical storage would be overly redundant.
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Sounds like you're on the right track, but how many people have both Google Drive AND one drive/Dropbox etc.? Some people also don't understand the concept of a snapshot back up (fixed) vs a mirror back up (active). If someone smashes one side of a mirror, the other may end up breaking as well. I don't know how the rules work, but if you don't pay the fees for the back up service, by accident or whatever, you could potentially lose some of the data or the quality of the data when it gets compressed. Hackers are increasing the way they operate. This could be a vulnerability in the future for a form of a ransomware attack.
You yourself are probably solid for proper back ups, but the vast majority of those who don't understand my paragraph above (and that's likely a lot), should probably do one cloud and one physical back up. A 4TB drive is only around $100 or less now. Cheaper than yearly subscriptions to multiple cloud storage sites if you're not on the free or cheap plans.