Stilly River Sage wrote: Also maybe put in a fresh external drive and keep a recent one separate from the machine (because if the machine is compromised by malware it goes for all external drives including the backup drive.

Your comment made me wonder whether cloud storage was vulnerable to ramsomeware. Short answer: yes it is (you can google the question). So a USB dive not left plugged in (we discussed in an earlier thread) is probably safer.

I ought to check that my Aomei backup can actually be used to restore the machine if the disk (it's an SSD) failed. But I haven't.