Question People advise to keep your system image backup in another location

nbartolo7

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at least in another room (in case of a burglary), better yet another house (friend or work) for maximum safety. But if I keep my external hard drive with my image backup on it, so far away, I have to forgo being able to do the daily/weekly/monthly automatic/scheduled image backup option that most people use, correct?
 
at least in another room (in case of a burglary), better yet another house (friend or work) for maximum safety. But if I keep my external hard drive with my image backup on it, so far away, I have to forgo being able to do the daily/weekly/monthly automatic/scheduled image backup option that most people use, correct?
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The offsite or external is the last item in the chain, not the only.

My 'offsite' is a couple of drive in a disk drawer at work.
Manually refreshed quarterly or so.

My real backup happens nightly, to the NAS box array on the other side of the room from my desk.
 
3-2-1

The offsite or external is the last item in the chain, not the only.

My 'offsite' is a couple of drive in a disk drawer at work.
Manually refreshed quarterly or so.

My real backup happens nightly, to the NAS box array on the other side of the room from my desk.
Ohhhh. I see. Got it. Thanks