[jyl]

Just following up. My cloud backup did finally complete. I lost track of how long it took - three weeks maybe. But now the incremental backups are unobtrusive.

So, my current backup scheme is:
- Continuous Time Machine to external HDD. That's for a lost file or two.
- Weekly drive cloning to another external HDD. That's for a complete drive failure, or burglar steals the Mac.
- Continuous Backblaze cloud backup. That's for the house burns down.

That's for the kitchen Mac where photos, music, etc live. The various Macbooks just use Backblaze cloud backup, they don't have much data on them.

Also juiced the kitchen Mac, an elderly Mac mini, with 16 GB RAM, SSD, El Capitan, and juiced wifey's older MacBook with the same. They both feel like new machines. Kids' MacBook Airs are only a couple years old. My MacBook Pro is only a year old. The WiFi access points are older but still working. Ditto the printers and the various monitors.

But wait, the iPhone fleet is getting old. A "6" and three "5"s. Getting about time to refresh the "5"s.

Keeping the home IT current "enough" is a never ending task. And the average home nowadays has as much tech as a small office did a decade ago. Sigh.