Okay, so I'm in IT and in my job we take offsite backups and we even test them from time to time.
I've been pretty good about taking regular backups (I use Macrium Reflect) for my personal devices, but really bad about taking them offsite.
I have too much data to justify use of a service such as Carbonite. Sure, most people can get by if their photos and documents are backed up, and I could do that...but I would also need to be able to recover my OS and all of my application partitions in order to be truly functional. I have two computers and one full image of all my disk partitions approaches 2 TB for the desktop and 1.5 TB for the laptop. Photos and personal documents make up only a couple hundred GB of those figures.
So yesterday I ordered a couple of new high capacity (4TB) hard drives; one internal for the desktop and one external for the laptop. With luck, they'll arrive tomorrow, and I'll then fold them into my backup rotation for each computer.
I need advice. I don't have relatives nearby, my work location isn't really 100% secure and I worry about how the company might react if it is discovered that I have a couple of large hard drives stored in my desk, even if they ARE my own, and even if they are secured in a Pelican case. I thought about getting a safe-deposit box.
I'm a bit stuck here. Do any of you physically store hard drives offsite, and if so, where? Can you think of any possible locations that might not require the use of my job, family, or a friend?