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Re:Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (2014) by marcosdumay on Sunday April 09, 2017 @05:44PM (#14074509)
Don't count on online backups to protect you from those¹. Anything plugged into a power grid anywhere can go away.

Offline backups would be safe (even from a close EMP, in HDD or SSD form).

1 - In theory you can have your power lines protected against those. But I wouldn't count on somebody's else lines being protected.

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