Ok, I bought Super Duper. Now it is telling me it is best to get a firewire HD for backup. I am backing up a laptop and cannot keep a hard drive hooked up to all the time. Will that be a problem? Also, right now I am using two USB portable hard drives from Western Digital. Can anyone recommend a portable hard drive that has firewire that I could use?
Nora On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Ed Wiser <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Rick Burnett > *Sent:* Friday, April 29, 2011 8:42 PM > *To:* Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers > *Subject:* Re: [MacGroup] File Synchronization between multiple drives and > a Mac > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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