Your data should always be stored in 3 locations: 1) Your primary computer 2) An external hard drive you keep at home 3) The cloud (Dropbox, google drive, etc)

Your data should always be stored in 3 locations: 1) Your primary computer 2) An external hard drive you keep at home 3) The cloud (Dropbox, google drive, etc) This protects you from device failures, cloud failures/lapse of service, theft, and accidents at home (fires, floods). I personally keep the physical hard drive disconnected from the computer and in a safe, which should protect from power surges and weird edge cases like solar storms. And then I have a recurring calendar reminder set to back up my phone and computer to it every month. If my livelihood depended on that data (or if the stuff I most cared about like photos weren’t also on my phone) I’d do it more frequently.