Scenarios like this is why i keep offline archives of my most valuable digital assets, our family photos. Literally everything except the photos can be replace

Scenarios like this is why i keep offline archives of my most valuable digital assets, our family photos. Literally everything except the photos can be replaced/restored/recreated, however impractical. The same goes to some extent for offical papers like passports, birth certificates, etc. I keep all of our files in the cloud (using Cryptomator for privacy where needed), and keep a local mirror as well as a local versioned backup, and a versioned cloud backup (so basically 3-2-1). Besides that, i make yearly archives on Blu-Ray M-disc media of all the photos we've shot in the previous year. 25GB or 100GB media depending on how busy that year was. I make identical copies, and store them at geographically different locations. I also don't use any form of encryption, compression or archiving. The photos are simply stored "raw" on the media using whatever filesystem Blu-Ray discs use. Alongside the Blu-Rays, i also keep a couple of external drives (mechanical) that contains a full mirror of our family albums, and select personal documents like 2FA recovery codes, a backup of my 1Password, etc. This is stored as a GPG encrypted tar file. The encryption is symmetric with a strong passphrase well known to me. These drives are checked (either long S.M.A.R.T. check or badblocks), updated and rotated yearly. Again, drives stored in geographically different locations.