I guess since I do devops sorts of things for a living where we treat servers as ephemeral, I don’t really even consider full drive backups any more. Generally

I guess since I do devops sorts of things for a living where we treat servers as ephemeral, I don’t really even consider full drive backups any more. Generally when I set up a computer, I use automatic configuration tools, and any sort of data store will have its own automatic backup and restore solution — or even better, won’t be on that server at all. In the case of a home computer, I’ll install everything using ansible and homebrew (or the App Store or steam) and backup documents and photos to Dropbox and/or iCloud or s3, and all my code and dotfiles of course are on github. I’ve spilled a soda on my laptop and been back up and running with a replacement in 10 or 15 minutes. My whole house could burn down and in terms of data, I’d be at best mildly inconvenienced. For people that don’t trust cloud, it’s way more likely that your physical copy is going to be lost or ruined than that multiple cloud services are going to lose your data.