The solution then is an offsite backup, which is exactly what it’s name describes: an additional copy of your data that’s not stored in the same location as your Mac and local backup. If your house burns down, floods, gets fried by a lightning strike, or is burglarized, your local backup that’s sitting there right next to your Mac is going to bite the bullet, too. While local backups - e.g., Time Machine, a cloned hard drive you keep on your desk, or even just a USB drive of your most important documents - are important, they’re vulnerable to the same risks as your original data on your Mac. It’s horrible! That’s why offsite backups are so important. Once you’ve tried to console a crying customer when you tell them that their lack of a backup means that their data is gone forever, you never want to let this happen to anyone else.
In my line of work with Apple-focused tech support, I’ve seen all of the worst-cases scenarios: people losing the only copies of their baby photos, crucial tax and business documents, and even the “less important” stuff like music and movie libraries.
Imagine then the frustration of trying to convince people to not only back up locally, but to create an offsite backup as well!
Even with tools that make it easy, like Apple’s Time Machine, many people still don’t take the time to properly back up their most important files. It’s hard enough convincing people to back up their data locally. How and Why to Set Up an Offsite Backup for Your Mac