Why I don’t Use Online Backup
I’m a control freak in this respect, but there really are good reasons to avoid on-line backup services:
XDrive No Longer Available
Recent Carbonite Problems
At most, on-line backup services should be an auxiliary backup, and not your main one. There is some rationale for having a backup off-site in case you have a disaster at home.
My current backup strategy is to do weekly full image backups with daily incremental backups stored on a separate internal drive. The full image backup is copied to an external USB drive as well, just in case my computer bursts into flames. I’ll need to add a third level of redundancy, and I’m leaning toward physical data, such as recordable DVD disks, that I keep completely separate … either at a relative’s house or perhaps in my office.
