Well, I generally use SuperDuper! to make a bootable backup (complete clone) of the internal hard drive in my Macbook Pro to an external drive. This in in addition to the time machine backup I have and the Backblaze online backup service I use. The benefit of the bootable backup is if I have a hard drive crash, I can plug in the external and boot to it resulting in no down time. I can continue to use my machine even before I replace the bad hard drive. This isn't possible with time machine or a non-bootable backup.
As for the media files and such: I have a Mac Mini connected to our TV. There are two hard drives connected to it, HD 1 and HD 2. I copy all of our DVDs, music and Blu Rays to HD1. This makes it so that we never have to deal with physical media except right after purchase. This is crucial as we have a toddler in the house and I'd really rather not buy another copy of Cars or Finding Nemo just because he scratched the disk. I use the "smart update" feature of SuperDuper! and it automatically runs in the background every other day (you can set it to run as often or infrequent as you'd like) and automatically copies any changes I'be made to HD1 over to HD2. This gives me a bit of redundancy in case HD1 fails, I don't have to re-rip/encode all of our media. Do a google search and check out SuperDuper!. IT's great program and I highly recommend it. rick On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > Will it synchronize all the drives automatically or will I have to do a > manual operation for each one? Excuse my ignorance on the subject, but why > would you need to use a bootable back-up if you are already backing up your > files? Do I gather what you mean by media files are those found under > Documents? I am really new to all this backing up. > > Nora > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Rick Burnett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd suggest ChronoSync and SuperDuper! > > SuperDuper! has a "smart update" feature that I use for all my bootable > backups as well as backing up my media center files. > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > > > I am thoroughly stumped. Since having a hard drive crash I am now running > > 2-3 backup hard drives on my Macbook Pro. I also keep some of the same > > files on my back-up drives that I do on my Mac and need a software program > > that would synchronize these files from my Mac to all 2-3 drives. Is there > > any synchronization software out there that would do that? > > > > Nora > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MacGroup mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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