Comment by bluGill
5 days ago
Probably. There are levels of backups, and a cloud subscription SHOULD give you copies in geographical separate locations with someone to help you (who probably isn't into computers and doesn't want to learn the complex details) restore when (NOT IF!) needed.
I have all my backups on a NAS in the next room. This covers the vast majority of use cases for backups, but if my house burns down everything is lost. I know I'm taking that risk, but really I should have better. Just paying someone to do it all in the cloud should be better for me as well and I keep thinking I should do this.
Of course paying someone assumes they will do their job. There are always incompetent companies out there to take your money.
My setup is similar to yours, but I also distribute my most important data in compressed (<5GB) encrypted backups to several free-tier cloud storage accounts. I could restore it by copying one key and running one script.
I lost faith in most paid operators. Whoops, this thing that absolutely can happen to home users and we're supposed to protect them from now actually happened to us and we were not prepared. We're so sorry!
Nah. Give me access to 5-15 cloud storage accounts, I'll handle it myself. Have done so for years.