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I'm interested to hear what do people use as their cloud backup and the cost of it. I currently use idrive e2 storage at 5$ per TB a month. Trying to see if there is any better deal anywhere and just curious on everyone's thoughts.

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hard drives in an old Mionix mouse box padded with bubble wrap, regularly swapped between 2 locations.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Don't understand the downvotes here, even just burying a HDD in a waterproof container in the backyard is way better than 99.9% of users with unencrypted files in OneDrive or iWhateverTheyCallIt. Offline backups are critical against accidental deletion among other things. Part of my 3-2-1 (not buried, just offline), I like old laptops with big SSDs, makes it self sufficient.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

I do this as well, offsite USB drive copy of backups from my PBS server that gets rotated every week for 4 weeks.

I only have a couple TB of important or irreplaceable data. I'm not backing up music or shows, I can just download that if I need it.