What do you actually mean by "the network' ?

You should be very specific when discussing technology if you really want help.

But in general, where you store your backups is based on your risk model.

I do not store backups on "clouds" or "the network" or "cloud servers" generally speaking because backups should be stored, for me, in a trusted place which I control.

I keep some backups on a hard drive next to my feet.

Storage is cheap in today's modern world. I backup all by data. Other people, backup none of their data.

I know one guy who is one of the best technical scuba divers in the world. He dives deeply into caves for many kilometers where he must stage 20+ tanks of various gases. He plans for every contingency when he scuba dives with considerable redundancy.

However, he always is posting on social media how he lost some data for an important presentation because he has no backups and his disk crashed.

So, I think to myself. Here is a guy who is very careful about how he dives in caves; but is quite careless about his digital data. But then again, he cares about his life much more than he cares about a loss of some power point presentation data; which is his risk management model.


Everyone, every business, indeed very entity has their own risk management profile and you should evaluate your risk, cost benefits and make decisions on what is best for you; not what others tell you do to.