by Colin Fraser.
[Disclaimer: No fan of the Dark Side.]
My advice is to avoid use anything "in the Cloud" for storing backups. My highly prejudicial advice is to be afraid, be very afraid of anything connected to the Dark Side. (Reasons too long and complex to go into in any detail, but essentially, their attitude is 'What's your's is mine and what's mine is my own'.)
Place your backups somewhere you will always have access to, your own server is best, or a dedicated PC. I've used an older PC that was going to be tossed out, stripped it down to base essentials, i.e. just the box, and used it as a NAS. Kept the original C: then installed a large HDD using that. In the short term it was a little inconvenient, but in the longer term, saved a lot of money for the organisation using it. Last time I spoke to one of the techs there they added another drive and were replacing the old PC with something newer, but just swapping the storage drives. Works for them.
My advice is to avoid use anything "in the Cloud" for storing backups. My highly prejudicial advice is to be afraid, be very afraid of anything connected to the Dark Side. (Reasons too long and complex to go into in any detail, but essentially, their attitude is 'What's your's is mine and what's mine is my own'.)
Place your backups somewhere you will always have access to, your own server is best, or a dedicated PC. I've used an older PC that was going to be tossed out, stripped it down to base essentials, i.e. just the box, and used it as a NAS. Kept the original C: then installed a large HDD using that. In the short term it was a little inconvenient, but in the longer term, saved a lot of money for the organisation using it. Last time I spoke to one of the techs there they added another drive and were replacing the old PC with something newer, but just swapping the storage drives. Works for them.