Step 1. Get all of your shit off the cloud. You don't own anything on the cloud. Yes, you can put stuff on there, but recognise this one fact. Out there, it

Step 1. Get all of your shit off the cloud. You don't own anything on the cloud. Yes, you can put stuff on there, but recognise this one fact. Out there, it doesn't belong to you. Nobody cares whether it remains safe or it disappears. especially don't have stuff on the cloud that doesn't exist anywhere else To have it remain safe and under your control, it needs to be on your own server(s). And those servers need to be backed up daily. Step 2. Have multiple backups. Backups have been known to fail or die. If one backup goes, there should be at least one more. Step 3. (And this might be sacrilege to some) Don't use encrypted drives. If there is a problem with the encryption, the whole drive is irrevocably lost. If all files are stored individually, one or more files might get corrupted, but losing the entire drive would be very unlikely. Step 4. Use hard copy. You know, that old stuff: paper. Periodically, print out all your accounts, logins and passwords. Store that list in a readable documents package which will be read after your death, labelled such as 'Legal Documents'. Step 5. Where have you copied all that stuff on your phone? People too often forget to back up their phones. And it needs to be a backup that is not restricted to a particular company. So you've backed up your iPhone to Apple's Cloud. Are you certain that your next phone will also be an Apple? If it isn't can you replace all that stuff into your new Android phone?