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I don't know, I would say B2 (or S3, etc.) are perfectly suitable as a secondary backup location. They are as durable or more durable than a NAS that I have in

• brudgers 5y ago
  They are as durable as automatic billing from a credit card. Disks in your friend's basement are more durable when not attached to a network and sitting in a Pelican case instead. One of the things a personal backup might want to survive is a long period of incapacitation and or neglect or higher priorities. The cloud, because it takes a dependency on credit cards, doesn't do that. A spinning hard disk in a box tends to and if it doesn't spin up there is still the physical media from which the data can be recovered. S3, etc. are suitable for business records. You can insure against their loss. If you don't have money to pay the bill you're probably not really going to need a backup much longer. etc. To put it another way, there is a decades long track record of success with physical media. There is about a decade and a half of total experience with the cloud.
  • anamexis 5y ago
    The continuous payment is an important point. But for the sample size of me, I feel like I am far more likely to keep paying for cheap cloud storage for 10 years than I am to adequately maintain and test an offsite backup myself. And to be clear, this is secondary backup, on top of my primary, onsite physical backup.