Time Machine is among the easiest backup solutions I've ever used. Just enable it, point at a USB hard drive or compatible network share, and it just works. Res

Time Machine is among the easiest backup solutions I've ever used. Just enable it, point at a USB hard drive or compatible network share, and it just works. Restoring files or rolling back the state of the whole machine takes just a few clicks. Of course, if the backup media is in the same location as your mac, it's susceptible to theft, fire, etc. And you need to be using macOS. If you just want to keep files and don't care about your OS, most cloud providers desktop clients work fine - Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. And they have the added bonus of keeping things in sync across multiple machines, which allows for working across multiple devices, and also each instance is another backup of your files (provided it's set to actually download synced files immediatley, rather than on-demand, as OneDrive defaults to). I have more experience with OneDrive than other providers, since I use it for work. Pros: - Two-stage recycle bin. If you delete a file, it goes in a recycle bin. If you delete it from there as well, it goes into another recyle bin & can still be restored. - Can sync your Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders in addition to the OneDrive folder, at least on Windows. Cons: - Doesn't handle large numbers of files well. Syncing 1000+ 500KB files can take the better part of a day. - Only downloads to the local machine on demand by default (but you can change this). As a set-and-forget solution with a little more setup effort, a commercial NAS (think Synology, QNAP, etc) & their software for backing up your PC should work well. Many NAS's have a feature to back up your NAS (or a portion of your data) to a friends NAS - and they can back up their data on yours. Buy one for youself and your parents/grandparents, and then you all have offsite backups for the family photos. LTT has a good demo of this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpxBmxj5mP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpxBmxj5mP0 I think there is a minimum level of computer proficiency needed to utilise a backup solution. So many people don't understand the concept of files and folders, or a filesystem, and I imagine the managing backups would be a stretch for them, unless they spent some time learning about these concepts. If a university student can't understand that their work is saved in a folder and not in Word, they're going to have a hell of a time trying to use OneDrive.