Local data can randomly disappear too - hard drives don't always fail in a predictable fashion.
Personally, I prefer to use both local and cloud storage (encrypted, bien sûr).
Personally, I prefer to use both local and cloud storage (encrypted, bien sûr).
Drives/tape/flash/dvd is pretty damn cheap and easy. These S3 type solutions would have to be much cheaper to be interesting.
Besides, how do you verify that those backups can be restored when you need them, if they're offline in some remote location? That seems rather untrustworthy to me. I run checks against parity files regularly to verify their integrity.
And can you download 47GB faster than your mom can mail you a DVD?
And can you download 47GB faster than your mom can mail you a DVD?
Probably, though I'm not quite sure about the speed of S3. I use a cheap VPS instead (much more expensive than Glacier, but also much, much more useful), from which I can easily get 3MB/s, so that would definitively be yes.