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Its called off-site storage
As a practical matter, I have no sympathy for anyone who loses business documents, dissertation, and the like because their computer is stolen.
I run a small business. I know that if my main computer and backup unit were stolen/destroyed I would be in deep do-do. (As a side point, a business I know actually closed up shop after a lighning bolt hit the main junction box outside its office. The strike burned out every computer/server/piece of hardware it had. It had no off-site backup.)
So I do daily backups which I keep in the office and once a week I do a backup to a portable hard drive which is then taken off-site. And for some truly important files, I also do daily backups to a web-base storage service.
SJ