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It's a nice idea, but I'd still want to be in possession of a copy of my data.
Can't argue with this, not everybody is comfortable with third party hosting. And perhaps rightly so.
I encrypt everything stored remotely, not everybody has the knowledge to do this in a safe way. Its easy to make a mistake.
Nothing in TBs, I'm probably under 250GB in total, my wife might have a chunk for her business(es). I'll also be a remote rsync destination for my brother (who might be 250GB or so), and possibly my other brother, and my neighbours, etc. 3TB is about the minimum with a 4-drive NAS so that'll do nicely for me.
Indeed. Hence my plan:-
NAS = main backup with redundant disk(s)
external HDD = on-site backup in case NAS dies
rsync to brother's NAS = backup in case house burns down
Why a NAS rather than just a couple of external HDDs?
The NAS can also be used as a central store for things I don't need backed up, e.g. holding movies for streaming to laptops, etc.
It's a nice idea, but I'd still want to be in possession of a copy of my data. I'm not ready to trust it all to the cloud (or multiple clouds for the data that needs to be backed up).