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Backups of your data
- Thread starter Jazzy
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I back up monthly, should do it a bit more often but I'm too lazy for that 
Just a usb stick? Must not have much data.
Hecka yes! Trying to do this less than monthly personally and my website hosting instrafacture and my website hosting clients are backed up automatically on the daily at the very least.
Website hosting clients and relevant data are trucked away to a VM provider where it and the data are stored 3 ways. Safe to say that it's very unlikely that these backups will ever gets destroyed.
Additionally I get an email every time it happened, it's time it took and quantity of accounts. Just to make sure everything is going as planned at all times.
Good start indeed, remember though if it not solely used as a offsite backup medium and/or it's keeping important information it's Single Point of Failure (SPOF) even if it "RAIDed".
I would therefore still back up the devices in other mean(s) depending on your needs and if so possibly consider remote from your house. Even a tool shed or a garage (even if it remotely attached) can helps serve as a safe harbor against localized fires/floods for example.
Other than a cloud provider (either for raw storage on a VM or actual shared storage) you could also/instead use an existing storage contract you have or just get one from U-Haul or whatnot as a "Dooms' Day" cache of some sort. Say if you house is flatten then you could have physical as well as digital "back ups" or spares of (like portable HVAC gears, generator, etc).
That's one so call not the cheap way. I mean the best way to go about it yeah. Worth the while in that case. I was looking at NAS years ago, many years ago ad it was around $800 if not more, gave up looking.
I'm really bad about making back ups! I recently uploaded a bunch of data to the cloud because I was given a huge amount of storage which I think was a glitch but I took advantage of it. I don't even know if I finished adding all the important things I wanted.
Finally remembered to back up my data tonight, 6 months out of date on my drive 
