And backups of really valuable information should be kept in a minimal of two locations, just in case his apartment goes up in flames and takes his computer and original backups.
>>And backups of really valuable information should be kept in a minimal of two locations, just in case his apartment goes up in flames and takes his computer and original backups.
Sure, in the situation where you have lots of data that has to be backed up to hardware. I used to take a second copy of backup tapes home when I was an I.T. manager.
But what makes this such a no-brainer, is this guy likely just had document files and maybe some Powerpoint stuff or something that could probably fit in the 5 GB he could get free with Google Drive many times over. Just copy and paste for cripes sake. I have zero sympathy for him.