I&#x27;ve found things easier than that with Time Machine, but in any case, I agree with your basic point. (Time Machine has the added bonus of turning the setup of a new system into something that takes a couple hours rather than a couple days--at least unless you want to take the opportunity to start clean.)<p>Should you have additional on-site and off-site&#x2F;cloud backups? Sure. I also use Backblaze as well as having a periodic on-site data files backup. (Plus whatever incidental backup is provided by Flickr and iCloud.) But, from my perspectivem it doesn&#x27;t hurt to start with a whole disk backup, especially given how easy Time Machine makes it.