Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when there is a perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly backup script, which currently sends my nightly incrementals to a cheap 3TB USB3 external drive:
#!/bin/bash # Just in case they are not mounted /bin/mount /mnt/3TB >&/dev/null /bin/mount /mnt/Movies >&/dev/null /bin/mount /mnt/Video >&/dev/null # #/home/roberts # echo "Starting /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup2.log date >>/home/roberts/backup2.log /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude /home/roberts /mnt/3TB >>/home/roberts/backup2.log 2>&1 echo "Completed /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup2.log date >>/home/roberts/backup2.log On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > My $.02 on Time Machine. > > I bought a 2TB time machine about 4? years ago and set up two MB Pro's > with it. Other than a little irritation from accidental reboots on the > device (connected to the same power strip as my flakey motorola internet > service, yielding a reboot via powerstrip toggle sometimes), I've had > nothing but good look. > > I've only had one occasion to do a full restore in an emergency and it > worked like a charm.. I *have* used it to migrate between MB Pros and an > iMac about 5 or 6 times in the same period. That has worked flawlessly as > well. > > It might be prudent to back that up somewhere offsite, but I'm just not > that prudent and now am spoiled to my regular "backup" and potential > "restores" being almost entirely invisible to me. I can't tell from the > discussion on the list how "transparent" the true cloud services are, > unfortunately I'm pretty sure my totally lame internet would make *restore* > a long and painful experience. > > > - Steve > > I have one data point. One of our Macs near Seattle had a drive fail, so I > had an employee take it to an Apple store. The 'genius' was very happy when > he saw the Time Machine, and, I think, nothing was lost. > > About the depth of cloud backups: I now use Arq on the Mac. The backups > are in Amazon's S3, and the frequency is settable: I have one done every > hour. You set a limit on how much space you want to use -- just as a Time > Machine has a fixed size -- and once you hit that limit, it will overwrite > the oldest versions as necessary. Also the paid version of DropBox keeps at > least some history. For saving a Time Machine offsite, Amazons Glacier > storage is one cent a gigabyte per month, so your 150 gigabytes would be > $18 per year. They really hit you with transfer charges if you try to read > a large amount in a short time, but since that presumably happens only when > your Mac and your time machine have both been roasted in a fire, you > probably will be happy to pay them. Unfortunately 150 gigs is not enough > for most time machines. > > --Barry > > > On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:42 AM, "Robert J. Cordingley" <rob...@cirrillian.com> > wrote: > > So has anyone successfully restored an entire system from the Cloud (or a > Time Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any statistics on > success rate? > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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