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by philjohn 3651 days ago
It is, if you outsource the storage. Backblaze is $5 a month per computer for (virtually) unlimited storage. They keep old copies of files for 30 days.
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To paraphrase:

>>>> If your data gets silently corrupted and you keep backing up that corrupted data, eventually there won't be any backups left that have the original uncorrupted data.

>>> You shouldn't delete old backups!

>> Storage is too expensive to keep old backups forever.

> Backblaze! ... will delete backups after 30 days.

Yes. So 30 days after your file was corrupted, you will only have corrupted copies left.

…that's why I use both Backblaze and Time Machine.