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The cloud is great for backups in the something is better than nothing sense. The same is true for SD cards thrown into a shoebox — except SD cards don’t have a dependency on credit cards.

Obviously not all at the same time

That’s the “so long as you are lucky” part. The cloud is great for availability. Availability != Backup.

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The cloud is great as the failure mode is statistically independent of the home backup failure mode. So both backups together if they have a 1000 to 1 chance of failing per year would give you a million to 1. You'd need to lose your primary data then hit the 365 million to 1 to lose all data.

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