It's making me think about unplugging it and not worrying about it. I didn't need to use it at all, despite the fact that I keep backups on it and keep it plugged in. I think Time Machine is past it's expiration date. all my apps were able to be re-downloaded from the App Store and all my files were in iCloud. I recently had to do a clean install of Catalina, I found that iCloud actually worked best for me. Weekly, they put that drive into their bank’s safe deposit vault withdrawing the third drive that was there. Daily (yes, daily) they copy the entire contents of that drive to one of the other two drives. One is locally attached and the primary backup. I have an acquaintance who handles backups essentially the same way I do with one addition: they have three identical 8TB hard drives. And terabytes of Apple iCloud storage is just laughably expensive. For those cases, I have key data files backed up with Norton but this does not include photos/videos/music files. Yes, there are some instances where this won’t work such as when the hard drive spins into oblivion or is stolen. For my use cases, TimeMachine remains the easiest to use and accompanied by a big fat fast attached hard drive has worked very very well.
I seem to have acquired several backup facilities over time, including Norton Security backup to their cloud, and backup utilities in other software.
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