Thank you for your patience BN. I'm fretful that I may end up with a daisy chain of devices all interdependent on each other, if one link fails then the whole backup operation may become unreliable.
My main concern is that if the iMac is stolen I'm stuffed if the backup device is stolen too. On reflection, and in discussion with Mrs yt, we think the most valuable information to lose would be our emails and financial information. How does this sound as a backup plan?
1. Back up the iMac on a weekly basis to a standalone usb 3 portable drive.
2. Back up to the iCloud the folder containing our email information (you may recall I will be using Outlook and so all the pertinent information will be in a single folder somewhere I presume)
3. Back up to the folder containing the financial package information to the iCloud. We use Moneydance and I'm sure I can find the folder where this app stores the information.
4. Back up the folder containing the Outlook Word documents to the iCloud.
5. Perhaps I can also store the iMac documents folder to the iCloud too?
Without going into too much detail, I am assuming i can schedule 2 - 5 above to happen on a regular basis with no further intervention from me.
Of course I will back up photos etc to a separate external hard drive too.
Last edited by yellowtriumph; 24th Mar 2016 at 16:30.