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Originally Posted by Maker
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.
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No solution is perfect, but any backup is better than none. Backblaze is great, but also 4X the cost of MS Cloud. Depends what you want.