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Originally Posted by Pugchief
Microsoft cloud is $1.99/month or $20/year for 100GB and automatic, which is pretty cheap IMO. Or, get an external hard drive on Amazon for $50 and use free software to run the backup yourself once a week. I'd be happy to make recommendations of hardware and software if you choose to go that route, but I honestly think the cloud is better. It works with Mac as well as Windows.
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Please reconsider the external drive approach to backups because there is a fatal flaw in that process.
Lets say an important spreadsheet is updated, but saves corrupt. Then the backup happens. Try to open the spreadsheet and cannot. No worries, go to the backup. Unfortunately it is a copy of the corrupt file. Data is lost.
Need to have versioning backups. The ability to revert to a previous copy. Many cloud providers provide that capability. Check out Backblaze and P-Cloud.
Also, any backup strategy that does not include off-site storage is highly vulnerable to complete failure because of fire, flooding, lightning surges, etc.