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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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If you upload your stuff to torrenting sites, you could consider that a free back up.
The problem is even if there was some sort of free cloud storage, it would be unreliable. If you've been around, Google cloud used to offer a lot more but has since cracked down- sometimes with relatively little warning.