I was trying speak against it because there were so many that said basically you need to have an online backup no matter what, its kind of like when any thread about computers turns to "buy a mac".
Online backups have a place, they are not the be all end all to backups and won't fit everyone, but the current popularity of "in the cloud" has so many going that route even if it isn't a good fit for their environment or situation. I was trying to point out that fist of all online backups for a number of reasons do not work for me and second are not the answer for everyone.
I'm more self sufficient than most, I don't call a plumber, I don't pay someone else to change my oil, I don't pay geek squad to fix my computers, I don't pay someone else to do my backups, I don't rely on someone else to provide my food/shelter/water if the need should arise.
You have got to be joking with me. Do you make your own fireproof safes too? You won't trust your data to an outside service, but do you ever bring your body to fly on an airplane that somebody else made? Do you store data on your local computer that somebody else made? Did you build your own house and your own car that you rely on for shelter everyday? Do you make your own rope if you go rock climbing? Sorry man, but your generally philosophy, as you're expressing it here, either makes you nonfunctional or makes you a hypocrite.
I'll say it for about the 10th time in this thread, online backup is just one of many layers of backup. There's a reasonable chance online backup could be the only layer that survives a disaster I may experience in the future.
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