Why will timemachine greatly reduce it? Mike
On Feb 2, 2008 12:38 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become > >more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their > >computer in greater ways. At present, I think that very large SATA hard > >drives of 1 Terrabyte (does Windows XP support these?) or BluRay disks > >are the only options for large data size backups. Are there other > options? > > You are very correct. Most of my clients hit the wall with DVD backup 5 > to 10 years ago. The solution was to switch to external FireWire drives. > A 20 GB drive then cost about $300. Today that $300 will buy 1000GB. > These usually rotate daily and one of the daily drives rotates offsite. > Today we have a few more choices like USB2 and eSATA, but the overall > strategy is the same. > > For the first time in many years I'm revising this strategy to > incorporate TimeMachine. This will greatly reduce the number of drives in > rotation. > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC > http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
