Experience with Carbonite? Other choices.

monkey44 wrote:
Even, how many have actually had a RV burn and lost all your data, AND your home, and your shop, and your work - or whatever. It's beyond my brain to imagine that happening all at once same day to a person, and if it does, you are the most unlucky person in the USA.

All these "online storage bins' just want the entire country to get so paranoid about "Data" that everyone will pay that monthly fee. AND, who's to say that server is safer than my safe? It's fireproof.
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Tragic events happen ... but the idea that virtual storage is safe? Not any safer than any other options available to everyone. And I'd for sure never, ever put my personal stuff up on some "cloud" that any employee (or tech miner) can get, copy, whatever ... Just seems very odd to me...

Paranoia is in the mind of the paranoiac. Yours appears to be about online services, while chastising others for being paranoid about buildings burning. You also act as if it's quite probable your data WILL be hacked. To me that's paranoia, to you, prudence.

Like the man said, why don't you keep your money at home? Of course, the answer is, you drew the line, somewhere. At some point you MUST trust something. You trust a hard drive in your house, I and many others trust online backups, but not necessarily as the only source.

What seems odd to me is the stuff people keep in storage, like bank statements, bill, receipts..stuff I'd toss almost immediately. And some have Terabytes of it! To me that's hoarding, to them, it's comfort. So be it.

Risk tolerance is quite different for each and every one of us.