Marioface5: No, and I don't see any reason to have one. If someday GOG does disappear, it's not like all of their stuff isn't already "backed up" on certain other sites anyway.

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Marioface5: I don't know why you're so certain about that. Plenty of companies have been around for over 100 years and are still going strong.

nightcraw1er.488: Go-on then, name one digital games retailer that's been around for a 100 years. Anyone remember Netscape, Yell, AOL, MySpace etc. Digital stores/services as about as stable as a jelly in a volcano.

Gadgets: I've made regular internal and external backups of pictures, home movies, and personal files like Quicken and TurboTax for years. The picture and home movie files are already over 400 GB. So adding GOG download backups to the list has been easy to implement.

One backup is to one of three internal 3TB hard drives. Then every couple of months I make a backup to an external hard drive and rotate it with the backup hard drives stored in safe deposit boxes at two banks that are located far apart.

Really important files also get backed up more frequently to Blu-ray discs, DVDs, and/or USB flash drives. In the future I will be making these backups to M-Disc Blu-ray discs which should last much longer than regular Blu-ray discs.

With EMPs being in the news lately I may start wrapping the external hard drives in layers of aluminum foil and insulator before storing them at home or in safe deposit boxes.

I realize this may be a paranoid reaction, and for game backups it probably is. But if I'm using these techniques to save one-of-a-kind photos, home movies, and personal files, I might as well add in GOG games.

P.S. This paranoia stems from my grandparents losing all of their one-of-a-kind family photos and personal records in a house fire about 50 years ago, and my sister having a similar loss when her house burned down about 15 years ago. Living in the center of tornado alley doesn't help with this issue!

Marioface5: No, and I don't see any reason to have one. If someday GOG does disappear, it's not like all of their stuff isn't already "backed up" on certain other sites anyway.

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Marioface5: I don't know why you're so certain about that. Plenty of companies have been around for over 100 years and are still going strong.

nightcraw1er.488: . . . I then have four separate 4tb HDD's . . . These are stored 2 * locally, 2 * not locally.

hudfreegamer: Where do you keep your non-local backups? I mean generally, not specifically.

I want to do that, but I can't think of where to keep them other than in a safety deposit box at the bank or burying them in a water tight box. Neither of those sounds like an ideal option.

Marioface5: Digital games retailers haven't even been a thing for 100 years. We're talking about companies in general, at least in the context of the claim that "no company is forever". There is no guarantee that GOG will ever die, let alone die before all of us do.

Also, it's important to remember that losing popularity isn't the same as the store/service becoming unavailable. Many things commonly thought of as dead, such as MySpace, still exist despite users having largely moved on. Though in any case, some stores/services losing popularity doesn't mean that other ones will.

nightcraw1er.488: That's entirely my point, digital retailers have been around for but 10 years and in that time have gone boom, bust, boom bust faster. Actual shops don't have that as much due to physical access by consumers, hence are less likely to go boom bust, at.least quickly. The internet inherently provides mass markets at the drop of the hat and one fail or another can fold a.company very quickly, or maybe hacking would take it down etc.

Marioface5: Fair enough. Personally I still don't expect GOG to disappear, but I can see why others would be concerned about the possibility.