Quote Originally Posted by Pinnacle-Project View Post
It's not necessarily about quantity. By backing up to the cloud, you can have a backup program run automatically overnight so you do not have to worry about it yourself. Yes, you could run a script to backup all your stuff to an extra drive but the cloud offers the added benefit of it being off site.
I was not negating cloud based backups, just the need to pay for it when there is so many free alternatives. Then again, I don't do corporate IT so I dont know how big those dbs get.