On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:14:13 +0000, Folderol wrote:

Exactly - and you can purchase a 1TB drive and a fireproof safe to
put it in for less than the cost of a years rental on a good cloud
server

As long as you know one hdd in a fireproof safe isn't a good backup.

The disk will break if the safe isn't waterproof.
The disk will break when the safe falls as the building crumples The
disk will break when the safe gets too hot as the fire rating is for
paper and it costs a lot more for one that will keep a disk safe.
It doesn't stop some scrote pinching your computer and the safe.
The disk will fail while copying the backup just as the main disk
fails. You copy any data errors caused by software to the backup and
lose the data.

Do you want anymore reasons why its not a good idea?

What a load of twaddle. If we're into Armageddon scenarios I don't think
anyone would be considering data security!

Failure of a single Tb HDD is hardly "armageddon scenario".