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Can’t stress the “off-site” in “off-site backup” enough. Your off-site backup should be far, far away from where your machine is—preferably thousands of miles away, on the other side of the continent, or on the other side of the planet (okay, maybe not that far). Preferably find a cloud backup service that allows you to set an encryption key that only you have, so no one else can decrypt your backups. Then, if they let you choose a data region to store your off-site backups in, choose one that’s reasonably far away to survive large regional disasters.

Yes, it may take some time to backup to off-site storage, and it may take time to restore from off-site backup, but it’s intended to be your absolute last resort, in case your machine and on-site backups go up in smoke along with your house. It may take time, but at least it’s not gone forever.

Interesting to note that many others have experienced this. A “bug” seems like a too convenient explanation—or perhaps, excuse—for this, though.

Hard to believe that dismissing a notification could ever be interpreted as consent for the action, but selecting “More Info” isn’t.

Fortunately for me, the upgrade process was smooth and I have not had serious issues with Sonoma. In fact, there were a number of bugs in Ventura that have been resolved with the Sonoma upgrade! But that’s still not an excuse to upgrade someone’s computer without their consent.

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