1) I use a time machine drive at my desk. This is useful for quick recovery. 2) I use backblaze (with encryption) for continuous backups to the cloud. Backbla

1) I use a time machine drive at my desk. This is useful for quick recovery. 2) I use backblaze (with encryption) for continuous backups to the cloud. Backblaze was super useful once when I had a drive fail as I was traveling. I was able to retrieve my SSH keys immediately and continue working in the cloud. It also provides reassurance that, if there were an event such as robbery or fire at my apartment, losing my laptop and time machine drive together would not be catastrophic. A final tip - I use http://tripmode.ch http://tripmode.ch to disable backblaze / dropbox / box / google drive / spotify backups while tethering, on bad wifi, on airplanes, etc. I find this tool essential to managing all of the services that continually sync in the background.