Yes. However, Backblaze has been doing it longer and doesn't require your oath of fealty like MS or Goog. They're all equally good, and more or less similarly priced to a certain point. (icloud and amazon backup too). The big guys charge you for additional space, (in large storage volumes of TB of data) where backblaze does not. If you want to do this, pick the one you like the pricing and features of the most. They're all perfectly fine.
Heck no. I have a fileserver that all the machines connect to and they will write backups there nightly. Then I copy that to my aggregation drive and backblaze gets it from there. Restores are a manual process, but I'm not all that worried about manual restores in general. They can run unattended in the background while I'm doing other stuff.
Backups are cheap insurance. Make sure you can encrypt them and don't lose your decryption key. That way, if someone down the road DOES manage to steal your data from the cloud provider, it's useless without your key.
9 bucks a month adds up over time, but the ONE time you lose everything and can recover it all from the cloud is priceless.
We're a bit off the thread topic here and I'll apologize for that, but it seemed like a good opportunity to teach.
