IceDrive lost thousands of my files without any notification. Their support escalated my ticket, then ghosted me for 2 weeks before closing it. I’m sharing a script to check if your files are actually backed up: https://github.com/rupumped/NicksAPPS/blob/main/Python/IceDriveVerification.py. Note that it requires argparse.
Usage: python IceDriveVerification.py C:\Documents C:\Photos C:\Projects --backup-root I:\
I think your mistake was trusting someone else with your backups.
Even if you backup locally there can still be bugs or misconfiguration that causes data loss, just gotta test the backups.
what software do you use to accomplish your backups? how do you prefer testing them?
I use Restic for online and Synology active backup for local.
For restic I either restore the backup if I have the space, or if not just mount it and compare, and restore a portion of it.
For active backup since they are bootable images I restore to a VM and test.
and only relying on one medium for them.