need a backup of a backup these days

I would stay away from reconditioned

Yes thats a reasonable plan, I would not buy anything recondition and for cloud, i’d look at idrive

go with idrive, pcloud does not offer the same functionality, credibility etc

I would have a look at idrive, user friendly and affordable

I would check out idrive, affordable. They offer private key encryption also. Will backup your external drives too

flatbed is best in my opinion, feeder is good for a few old photos, etc,…but cataloging many of them, and they possibly might be bent, etc flatbed is best

i’d use rclone with idrive e2…

wetrasnfer is great, have been around a long time.

they started changing all of this as you mentioned, but I think the tips already posted will work

I follow it personally, backup locally to a WD drive, and cloud is idrive

Did you look into their express service? They can send you a hard drive for your first big upload

Yes, IDrive works here, they’ll send you a hard drive with their service called IDrive express, Good product and pricing too…so every backup after your first upload via idrive express will be incremental…