That's kind of surprising given how their hardware model is setup, with pods of HDDs that are filled up and then essentially archived away. I guess the amount of space freed up is enough that it makes sense to open those pods back up for writing.

Huh, I didn't know that. My first line of 'oh shit I deleted a thing' is Time Machine, since it's right there next to my external monitor and won't require waiting for a download.

One of the reasons I switched to Crashplan. Their Java client is pretty terrible performance-wise, but it's still the best cloud backup I've tried.

Your definition of backup...