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Originally Posted by Sams  We automatically back up data on our laptops and flashdrives each day to a mirrored pair of 1 TB disks (RAID-1) on a separate PC using the free 'backuppc' product. |
The problem with this is that if you have a break-in or a fire then your backups are destroyed as well.
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Critical data is also stored on Amazon S3, which costs $0.15 (USD) per GB per month.
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If the above happens then this is all you'll actually be able to recover.
Backups are not just in case of a crashed hard drive, they're there to protect your data from theft and destruction.