I am overly cautious and I keep all my hard copies in the closet. However, I keep the info on two different PCs in the house, one external hard drive, one copy on Dropbox and one on Box...both cloud storages. I also have the trees on Ancestry. About once a year, I email the trees to myself as an extra back up. I transcribe old letters and newspaper articles, etc and keep them and the scanned copies also on the cloud as well as scanned pics.
Some people use a cloud service such as Carbonite that backs up their computer. I think that runs about $60 a year.
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