No one at time of posting has mentioned standardized backup being stored in physical copy off site. Low risk, high impact events do happen. Copying my harddri

No one at time of posting has mentioned standardized backup being stored in physical copy off site. Low risk, high impact events do happen. Copying my harddrive to USB and storing them in the same room doesn't protect against a lot of other failures - fire, theft, other social or natural disaster. For a small company or startup: Code is often versioned. Is everything else? Perhaps buy a cheap USB stick for a dump of all admin files that could have an impact should they get corrupted? Make a copy each week and stick on a new USB stick to put in your car's glove box (hopefully getting full, as you have a stack of backups - the is super important for audits: as a manager you should be able to trace changes in office documents easily, something someone more naïve would assume is covered up - I've seen it happen). Copying to the cloud puts a lot of trust in the cloud being there in the event of a failure. If the technological connectivity causes of failure for my business and the cloud are independent this makes a lot of sense. Not when passwords can be easily shared, floppy disk controllers introduce rooting vulnerabilities, etc. An off-site physical medium makes a lot of sense for backups. Encrypt a USB stick and keep it in your car. If you have an office with multiple sites, send a USB/HDD/SD containing backups every couple of weeks. Low probability, high impact events do happen. And they have an irrecoverable impact. Have a routine. Then, as others have said, you have a recovery solution, not a backup.