I have a closet with old boxes pf papers, so I'm scanning tons of old stuff to get rid of them. I will then put a child in that closet and convince the child that 2 feet by 3 feet is an acceptable bedroom.

But all this scanning makes me think about data portability, readability and survivability. I use cloud backups, but will always also keep a local backup. For that local backup, how would you suggest protecting it both against an EMP and ordinary hard drive breakage? I use a new HD every ~3 years just as a precaution. But researching the EMP thing brings me to a fever swamp of survivalist forums who proscribe creating faraday cages from tinfoil ( ) or just keeping the backup drive unplugged.

Does anyone here have any thoughts on this?