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I suspect that some Windows users enjoy having something Windows-related to complain about. If not, they would have switched to a different operating system ages ago. There are enough to choose from: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD to name a few.
It much harder in a corporate environment...
 
Progress basically killed local backups, what do you use? HDD/SSD is not really resilient, DVD/BR-R is out of fashion and more and more hard to get, tapes even more niche even for this forum. I can only think of another cloud, some AWS (Glacier is pretty cheap) storage in different regions to spread the risk.

Some very redundand RAID?
I have a Buffalo LinkStation NAS box for local backups and a Family Office 365 subscription for cloud. The office subscription gives me I think a 5-user licence each with 1tb of storage. You can also build your own NAS using something like an HP Miniserver with ZFS disks...
 
I use optical storage for smaller data sets. 5 GB should handle many years of email. Most of the projects I worked on also fit conveniently on a DVD so keeping an extra copy alongside the contract information is easy. I admit it will be difficult to justify buying another DVD spindle when a hard drive offers several times the storage for the same money.

My one long term test flash drive has retained its data over more than 15 years with tests every few years. Freebie 128 MB drive doesn't have much use otherwise. I hope guidance of how often an SSD should be plugged in to refresh the cells will be provided.
 
Time Machine on macOS makes local backups painless. Since outright, utter, and complete catastrophe is (thankfully) still quite low compared to semi-conscious fat fingering files to destruction, or simply the loss of a hard drive, local backups via Time Machine are a life saver.

I've used it several times when my bacon got extra crispy. My wife uses it on her laptop. Absolutely painless.

Every now and again, Time Machine gets into a fit and wrecks its drive, or the Time Machine drive itself starts spitting up bits.

No matter, just wipe it (or replace it), and start again. This isn't archival storage. This is "oh no, I wrecked that file, let me recover it from yesterday".

Sticking $100 USB drive into the computer is just plain good practice.

That said, I also have her laptop copied over to my machine (via syncthing), and then the entirety of my machine is slurped in to the cloud via BackBlaze. They have about 2+TB of my data.

I do this mostly for the photos and other media, which I do not back up using Time Machine. BackBlaze is my $60(?)/year off site catastrophe solution. It's been really painless too (I have not ever used it for recovery, however, my recovery plan is to have them send me a hard drive with my files on it).

I always marveled that MS never came up with a solid Time Machine utility to make it painless for human beings to make at least some effort to protect themselves for carbon based or silicon based disaster at home.
 
I have a Netgear NAS and a couple of USB external hard drives for backups. Plus have cloned the desktop's hard drive onto a stored HDD. I just wish I had done better backups a decade or two ago since I've lost a lot of my old laptop business data due to moves and damaged drives.
 
My biggest issue with Onedrive is the filename character and size limits. It can't upload some of my files for these reasons. Why MS didn't make it match the capabilities of their own filesystem I do not know...
 
My one long term test flash drive has retained its data over more than 15 years with tests every few years. Freebie 128 MB drive doesn't have much use otherwise. I hope guidance of how often an SSD should be plugged in to refresh the cells will be provided.

Older flash memory seems to be far more reliable than the modern MLC/TLC/QLC crap. I've had to RMA two WD Blue SSDs now because they just stopped working completely. One would cause a laptop to fail to even power on if it was plugged in, and the other would cause a weird "hard disk bad, replace" BIOS error that wouldn't even let the system boot, it'd just get stuck in a boot loop.
 
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