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I have almost everything on this list, except canned food, which we stock up on when there's any reason to expect an emergency. We are our social circle's manifestation of Crazy Prepared. I've actually been trying to reduce the amount of emergency-preparedness we do when traveling, because carrying a backpack full of food, water, meds, and miscellaneous necessities everywhere starts to suck. I do have a fire safe and I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't, except perhaps if one's parents still hold the documents normally kept in such. Perhaps a good chunk of LW is in this boat; I know we have a lot of students.
My partner and I spent our early adulthood in a trailer home in a hurricane-prone area, so our habits are sort of calibrated to that.
My data is too big for cloud storage. :-( But I do have a backup drive. It's an external HD, gets backups every night, and is arranged so that in an emergency I can grab it and run. I plan to start swapping it with a drive in the fire safe once I rebuild the server and get new storage.
Is it, now? I am at the moment setting up to backup a bit over 2Tb (yes, it's a "T") to the cloud, specifically Amazon Glacier.
<checks pricing> Now, that's interesting. Prices must have dropped considerably, and limits risen considerably, since the last time I looked in to this. I run from 500GB-3TB depending on how much I decide is important enough to back up. The last time I checked into cloud backups, even just 500GB was only available at prices that weren't worth it. I'm still not entirely comfortable with having copies of my files in the hands of a party I don't personally trust, but I think maybe I should revisit the idea.
I would worry about bandwidth, but I assume you're on the same class of consumer internet that I am or you would have mentioned it, so it must be manageable.
I find it odd that you would need 500 GB before it would be worth it. I mean, 1 GB is enough to store thousands of pages of documents. I would think that even 100 GB should be enough to store at least half of a normal person's data, weighted by how bad it would to lose it.
Yes, the reason I got interested in cloud backup is that prices finally became somewhat reasonable.
With respect to security, for most of the stuff I'm backing up I don't care, but otherwise you can just locally encrypt and backup the encrypted files.
As to bandwidth, it's just the initial upload that's the problem, in my case the later incremental backups are going to be comparatively small.