Solved Urgent recommendation needed!

[deb_user]

It's up to each individual to decide how important their data is, how many backups to keep, and where to store them. The internet police won't arrest you if you have no backups at all, but if you come here complaining that your data is lost and you have no backups, some of us will laugh at, not with, you. Backups kept at the same location as the main data drive may be safe, but that's not enough for me. I'm just one rando on the interwebz, though, so manage your strategies as you see fit. You being anyone who happens to read this.

 

[The Duck]

Important data I keep gets saved onto CD / DVD where it will last for the rest of my lifetime.

Short of stepping on CD / DVD discs and physically breaking them they have been indestructible in my experience.

 

[deb_user]

Fire destroys them. Tornadoes can destroy or lose them. A large meteorite hitting the house can destroy them. Feces occur, and Murphy was an optimist. But only you can decide how much risk you're willing to accept for the data you have. It takes too many disks to hold all the data I want to save. I am definitely not you, so our risk tolerance will always be different.

 

[ron.alan]

One can always backup to an external drive and keep it in a bank's safe depost box; and take it out once a week or so for new files to be backed up. I would do this before I backup to the cloud.