True dat! I have a separate hard drive just for backup,it backs up at least 4x/day, AND I have all my pics on zip drives as well (all 15,000 of them)....stored in our safe. So I have 3 places, hopefully that would be safe.
I just wish I had learned a lesson from my bro-in-law. I'd been storing things on the designated space with my internet provider - one day they were gone. They stopped offering that service but didn't offer any advance warning.