A day of Admin ..
Spent a good amount of time getting backups setup on ubuntu ..
Insynch to backup google drive to my computer - https://www.insynchq.com/
Setup good old Thunderbird
to download email to my computer
- the trick is to get an an app specific
password.
Finally, bought cloud backup from SpiderOak it seems quite good from a security point of view, the app itself is a little 'java', but seems to work OK.