If you have an offsite copy of your files (and not in a sync service like Dropbox) you are already in a better position than most.
Restoring from offsite takes time, even with Backblaze’s option of shipping a hard disk. You may also have data corruption troubles, companies may close all of sudden. It’s just not as convenient as local copies.
A further copy that is locally available is simply a better strategy. Adding more copies after these two is not a bad idea but you start getting hit by the law of diminishing returns.
It can highly depend on what hardware you are using and that depends on your life style.
If you are a traveling active individual, the 2 “local” storage could be a phone and a laptop. In this case if you are robbed what do you do? In some cases the files and information on those devices could be worth more then the devices themselves. A “non-local” storage can be used in this scenario to recover the lost data.
If you have an offsite copy of your files (and not in a sync service like Dropbox) you are already in a better position than most.
Restoring from offsite takes time, even with Backblaze’s option of shipping a hard disk. You may also have data corruption troubles, companies may close all of sudden. It’s just not as convenient as local copies.
A further copy that is locally available is simply a better strategy. Adding more copies after these two is not a bad idea but you start getting hit by the law of diminishing returns.
You can actually read more about the 3-2-1 rule in a Backblaze post: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
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It can highly depend on what hardware you are using and that depends on your life style.
If you are a traveling active individual, the 2 “local” storage could be a phone and a laptop. In this case if you are robbed what do you do? In some cases the files and information on those devices could be worth more then the devices themselves. A “non-local” storage can be used in this scenario to recover the lost data.