OK, a thing or two needs to be said regarding the potential of losing your backups in the event your house burns down since this a repeating refrain (pun intended).
There are three forms of damage that can occur in a fire: heat, water, and smoke/soot. If your backups are in the vicinity of where the fire starts then they are toast because they will be destroyed by all three: heat, water, and smoke/soot. If your backups are somewhere else then they run the risk of being destroyed by water and smoke/soot. However, you can mitigate this risk by storing your backups in airtight containers like a sealable plastic bag. In almost all cases, no matter what the backup type (hdd, optical media, tape), it will survive the fire just fine especially if kept in a small fireproof safe.
So while keeping offsite copies of backups is best practice, there are some simple things that can be done as well.
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Great advice for backups. Yes, keeping them in a solid safe (and some security in place to hinder any movement that could knock it around) is great advice for even larger disasers, like even tsunamis or alien invasions.
But keeping offsite copies of backups is even better practice for another reason. Theft is another form of data loss.I hate VHS. I always did. -
I would never discourage anyone from keeping offsite copies of their data. But what people rarely do is seriously audit their onsite data storage practices. Many people are under the false assumption that they are doing a great job onsite, and sadly that is just not the case. Onsite storage is potentially more important because offsite storage rarely is implemented at the level that truly protects 100% of the data. When a hard drive fails, it seems that the data that was generated just yesterday is suddenly the most important.
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Hi I got Seagate expansion plus their backup drive, Toshiba, WD new and old drives in all about twenty plus drives of various manufactures some I had problems with but it was mostly heat related. I like Toshiba the most.
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