These backups could be local or remote
backups better be local AND remote.
backups better be local AND remote.
I don’t see how that is better than two or three remote backups?
Do I need to change my strategy?
Example: my work places all our files, including your docs and desktop folder, on OneDrive. There is a local cache, but they don't actually let you do a full sync to local to minimize egress
Example: they replaced my laptop, I had about a TB of data generated on the old one. It's all in OneDrive. I power up the new laptop. I can't just sync everything to it - they disable that via policy. Every time I open something for the first time, it downloads. So if I wanted to say, copy all my crap to AWS. Now I have to Egress the whole thing from Azure.
Now, imagine you have more than a TB. Not arguing either way - just answering the question.
anyways, we obviously both agree that having a local copy is a good idea either way, and i appreciate your additional examples of the problems that one can run into with a remote only backup