Backup: complete, and as automatic as possible

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BackBlaze offsite backup “continuously.”

You should be very cautious with this if DEVONthink databases are involved. Snapshot-style backups are considered safer. Also, there was recent discussion of a loss of metadata when usng BackBlaze.

Restoring ghosts from Backblaze backup

While I can’t answer most of your questions, I just wanted to point out something about Backblaze in case you’re not aware of that. They don’t back up most metadata. So restoring from that Backblaze backup will result in all dates, like creation or modification date, as well as things like tags, Finder comments and any custom metadata to be lost. Your whole database structure will lose its history and potentially more. Time Machine backups would be better if you have them, because they include…