Cloud storage versus local backups, what's your actual honest setup right now

[Rapid Ava]

Run both simultaneously, cloud for anything I need access to across devices, a physical drive at home for the genuinely irreplaceable stuff I never want dependent on a company staying in business

Curious what people's real setup actually looks like, not the ideal setup you know you should have, the one you genuinely maintain right now

[Dylan70]

Purely cloud at this point, trust the redundancy more than I trust myself to actually maintain a physical backup routine consistently

[AEWCallum93]

Local only, don't trust handing my personal files to a company's servers, external drives with proper redundancy work fine for my needs

[Candle28]

Both, but I'll be honest my local backup routine has gotten sloppier over the last year and I know I'm overdue for an actual audit

[Skibidi98]

Cloud for documents, local for anything media heavy, splitting it that way keeps my monthly cloud storage bill from getting out of hand

[Southern Erin]

Genuinely just cloud with zero local backup right now, know that's risky but the convenience has won out over my better judgment so far

[Emma72]

Multiple cloud providers actually, spread across two services specifically so I'm never fully dependent on one company's pricing or policy changes

[PowerhouseHobbs_Fan]

Local network attached storage at home plus an offsite cloud backup specifically for disaster scenarios like a fire or theft