With any on-line service, if you are not paying for the product, then you are the product. If their business model no longer turns information on you into money, you become surplus to their requirements. Paid for access obviously relies on your continued payment. Photobucket was an early warning.
And for my preferred backup, I should have said "Aomei Backupper" - the EaseUS Todo one was good, the latest version probably works fine, but getting the free one is becoming a bit of a pita, probably a sign that that corporation wants more bites for its bait.
So, every so often, a system backup to a separate drive, rather more often, a Synctoy session to spread the latest versions of my files around. I just wish that I could find a simpler way of tying my Thunderbird stuff across my machines. It would probably involve some considerable digging in the options and copying the right files to their new location, but there is some built in nervousness about disturbing a system that does work for me.