My work computer is also my home computer. So not losing photos and videos is pretty critical. Everything else is replaceable.<p>I just bought a cheap Seagate Backup Plus 4TB last year. I think it was $130. Then I just let Time Machine do it&#x27;s thing. So that&#x27;s 2 copies of the important stuff.<p>Then $50 annually for Backblaze. I&#x27;ve got no real use for Dropbox and it costs twice as much for less storage. I could totally see using it in a media company. That&#x27;s just not a problem I have. I pretty much never need to share a personal file that&#x27;s too big for iMessage (photos&#x2F;videos) or Email (spreadsheets). Anyways, that&#x27;s a third copy.<p>Then I&#x27;ve got iCloud to share photos&#x2F;music&#x2F;videos on our Family Sharing. That&#x27;s a fourth copy.<p>So everything is pretty much always in sync. Wether it&#x27;s my wife&#x27;s iPad, my laptop, either of our phones, etc.<p>Into the second year it&#x27;s cheaper than just having Dropbox alone. But the best part: It takes... I dunno. 10 minutes of one time setup effort. You don&#x27;t have to know anything but how to click &quot;Next&quot; or &quot;OK&quot; in a wizard, and it&#x27;s zero maintenance. Nothing to baby-sit.<p>And it&#x27;s a little slow, but if I really need an individual file off Backblaze, I can get it. Just takes a couple minutes to use their web based backup browser and selectively download something. I&#x27;ve had to do that a total of one time though.<p>Beyond that setting up a new machine for me for development is just pulling my .bashit theme, installing homebrew, installing IntelliJ, running brew install sbt git and I&#x27;m pretty much good to go. It was really surprising how quick setting up my Macbook for Scala development was compared to setting up previous machines for Ruby development.