On-line back-up options

[Steve]

Originally Posted by pnoon

I'm with you, Brother. Not a huge fan of "cloud" storage.

Time Machine is nice. I leave it on and it does incremental backups every hour. I know some folks who use it but only turn it on every few weeks/months and manually run a backup.

The only "drawback in our approach is that if a disaster (fire, earthquake, flood, etc.) hit or a burglary, an in-hand backup is of little use. I am in the process of manually backing up important docs, pictures, music, and movies to one of my external drives and either giving it to a friend or placing it my safe deposit box. Every month or two, I plan on retrieving it and updating as needed.

Personal/Windows.

I have a "local" hard back-up, but was thinking more for the "catastrophic" scenario such as fire, burglary or even one of those pesky hurricanes we tend to have around here every once in a while. I'm not so worried about personal stuff that hackers would be interested in as that's pretty slim and is taken care of, but in this digital age, I have a LOT of family pictures that could not be replaced.