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Yes. I love not having to worry about my iPhone and iPad. I've been using iCloud backup on those devices for years and years, transferring across devices and it
by js2 5y ago
Yes. I love not having to worry about my iPhone and iPad. I've been using iCloud backup on those devices for years and years, transferring across devices and it just works.
I don't have a single extended family member who backs up their Macbook's properly. I've tried. No one wants to be bothered with having to periodically attach a USB drive to their laptop. And Time Machine to an SMB share is flakey.
The Macbooks in my home are setup to use Time Machine to an SMB share and Arq to B2 because I can help if something breaks.
For my kids away at college, they have an external USB drive, but neither reliably plugs it in. So their laptops are also configured with Backblaze because Arq's UI is too damn confusing.
It's especially non-sensical to me that Apple doesn't offer this since they already have offer to host your photo library, music library, and documents and desktop folders in iCloud, plus whatever other apps choose to sync to iCloud. They can exclude the OS and apps from the app store.
Now, I personally wouldn't use this as my sole backup. But for family members who aren't backing up at all? Yes, please.
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