I appreciate the comment and often desire to avoid using cloud services but would provide a little counter suggestion.

When using an Apple device(s) the iCloud is built into all of the apps and it does bring a lot of benefit. When you setup your user identity on your iPhone/iPad you can use an existing email address (hotmail, aol, gmail etc) or setup a clean account with an Apple iCloud address. This creates the "cloud" point that the machines in the account use to sync and share stuff, as well as backup.

Whilst I will never say your data is safe I do believe that the Apple data protection policies are somewhat better than Google and Microsoft. By using iCloud you do get all the benefits of almost real time backup, sharing of notes, calendar etc. If you migrate to a new (apple) machine like a MacBook Neo it will almost perform a total self-setup and sync with your phone/pad when you enter your account.

I have given up making external drive backups now however the backup application does still exist on MacOS.

Do a Ctrl-Spacebar and type in timemachine and you will find it there - you will need to select backup to local disc. Beware that the drive to USB-C means older drives/cables will need to be changed. It is massively faster and more flexible so worth doing. If anyone needs spare drives I have a bucket of them from 500Gb to 12Tb....500 & 1Tb can be provided for the cost of postage.

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