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Depends on your cloud solution, but OneDrive has version history so you can just roll it back.

Unless OneDrive silently corrupts your files upon upload: https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-api-docs/issues/1577

Btrfs has snapshots too. That doesn't rule out bugs in it.

Making something someone else's problem doesn't magically make the problem go away.

Are we really having a debate on whether cloud storage with proper redundancy, reliable hardware with ECC memory and dedicated sysadmins is as vulnerable to mishaps as a consumer-grade SSD taped to a Raspberry Pi?

I hope we can at least agree that it is 3-4 orders of magnitude more likely that an SSD with btrfs and no RAID attached to a Pi to lose data within a given time period than, say S3?

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