iCloud Storage? Google One? Dropbox?

[Anonymous]

How much storage do most people pay for their phone/photo backup? iCloud is the easiest for our iPhones, but OneDrive is included with our office account. But backup is kind of cludgy and requires users to open the app to sync I think.

Do people pay for one or more storage? It feels like it all adds up…

[Anonymous]

So everyone just carries it all on their phone and that’s it?

[Anonymous]

I pay for Dropbox on my desktop for my business. And I also pay for iCloud that backs up my iPhone every day. The whole family can share the iCloud storage space for their phone backups too.

[Anonymous]

I have triple backup. I'm an Apple user and I pay 99 cents a month for 50 GB of iCloud storage that backs up photos, videos, and some other content like Notes. I pay $7 a month for Backblaze continuous online backup of all my files on my computer including photos. And I have an external hard drive on which I backup all my content using Apple's Time Machine.

[Anonymous]

There is no cloud. It is just someone else's computer. And they might or might not be doing a good job of keeping the data safe.

We backup to a separate (encrypted) backup-only disk (bought at Costco) attached to our computer. We do not rely on any cloud.

[Anonymous]

I pay 9.99 a month for iCloud and our whole family shares it. I also back up photos to Amazon (free with prime) and to an external hard drive.

[Anonymous]

We backup to a separate (encrypted) backup-only disk (bought at Costco) attached to our computer. We do not rely on any cloud.

I hope that you have more than one copy of the backup and rotate it off-site. Having a point-in-time copy of your files can be important if file corruption happens and you don't notice immediately.

That said, I believe in handling my own backups, too. I have online (synchronized nightly) copies of my files on a virtual private server in a different state and at a relative's house in a third state. I also have offline copies (both off-site and on-site) that get rotated every few months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We backup to a separate (encrypted) backup-only disk (bought at Costco) attached to our computer. We do not rely on any cloud.

I hope that you have more than one copy of the backup and rotate it off-site. Having a point-in-time copy of your files can be important if file corruption happens and you don't notice immediately.

That said, I believe in handling my own backups, too. I have online (synchronized nightly) copies of my files on a virtual private server in a different state and at a relative's house in a third state. I also have offline copies (both off-site and on-site) that get rotated every few months.

Good advice but I would discourage encrypted backups if they are physically secure. Way more likely you will lose the key than your house will be broken into. If you have truly valuable data like BTC keys on the drive, well don’t. But almost anything else is secure enough for “in your house”, just like their physical equivalent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We backup to a separate (encrypted) backup-only disk (bought at Costco) attached to our computer. We do not rely on any cloud.

I hope that you have more than one copy of the backup and rotate it off-site. Having a point-in-time copy of your files can be important if file corruption happens and you don't notice immediately.

That said, I believe in handling my own backups, too. I have online (synchronized nightly) copies of my files on a virtual private server in a different state and at a relative's house in a third state. I also have offline copies (both off-site and on-site) that get rotated every few months.

Wow I have no off site options or family I could bother with this. Maybe when my kids are older I can hook up with them.