Redundancy != Backup RAID is redundancy.  Clusters are redundancy.  It's about keeping services available, not preventing data loss. Backups are about preventing data loss. For a long time, the 3-2-1 backup rule has been considered the most reasonable solution most of us will get.  Of course, now I see people saying it sucks .  Well, you do what you can afford, I guess. It's worth noting that you can self host an off site backup, if you have a second physical location you can use.  It can be a relatives house or you can even rent a space on an existing server farm.  The main point is that it's not in the same building as the original copy.