Post #2019708

Recommend you follow the [321](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/) backup strategy. Adopted to modern times I would say it is broadly: - Have your data in more than 1 place - Use more than one provider - One of your types of backups should be physical media like an external hard drive. From what you described if apple was to wipe your data[1] you would be completely out of luck.. for example if something deletes data in your Mac and then that deletion gets synced... For the most part syncing data is not a backup. Lastly, recommend you try to put all your critical data in one folder, or identify folders with critical data and prioritize backup of those first while you figure out the rest. [1] Not only can a deletion "sync" from your mac, but there can be any number of issues.. like a bad update to a file. There is also the possibility, no matter how small, that apple could wipe your data. Over time you always see news of "company X deleted entire set of data for user/company Y".