Always have local and offsite backup, so you can get to it quick when the laptop dies, but still have options when the house burns down. For me that is:
* Connect an external drive every few days for Time Machine to do it's magic. If I forget, it will remind me after a week or so.
* Continuous offsite backup using Backblaze. Really, they're great!
If you want continuous backup locally too, you could use a NAS for Time Machine to backup to instead of a simple drive.
I used to use Crashplan on Windows back in the day, but their interface is (was?) horrible and it's all Java, so when I switched to Mac I compared some options and in the end chose Backblaze.
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Always have local and offsite backup, so you can get to it quick when the laptop dies, but still have options when the house burns down. For me that is:
* Connect an external drive every few days for Time Machine to do it's magic. If I forget, it will remind me after a week or so.
* Continuous offsite backup using Backblaze. Really, they're great!
If you want continuous backup locally too, you could use a NAS for Time Machine to backup to instead of a simple drive.
did you compare options when choosing backblaze? the only other one i see recommended online is carbonite
I used to use Crashplan on Windows back in the day, but their interface is (was?) horrible and it's all Java, so when I switched to Mac I compared some options and in the end chose Backblaze.