1. copy to hard disk
2. buy a new drive every year and copy it forward
3. store a copy with relatives
Note that a cloud provider:
1. can shut off your access at any time, by accident or on purpose, and you have no recourse
2. will sell your data to anyone at any time
3. will give it to any government for the asking
4. will leak it to any hacker
5. will allow employees of said cloud provider to browse your data
6. will scan it to use it to sell you ads
7. will scan it looking for anything they don't approve of this week, and take "corrective action"
8. if you've got terabytes, good luck trying to download it
2. buy a new drive every year and copy it forward
3. store a copy with relatives
Note that a cloud provider:
1. can shut off your access at any time, by accident or on purpose, and you have no recourse
2. will sell your data to anyone at any time
3. will give it to any government for the asking
4. will leak it to any hacker
5. will allow employees of said cloud provider to browse your data
6. will scan it to use it to sell you ads
7. will scan it looking for anything they don't approve of this week, and take "corrective action"
8. if you've got terabytes, good luck trying to download it