Of course another piece to any backup strategy is off-site storage. If
your stuff is valuable enough, take one of your drives every so often
and leave it with a friend somewhere else. That way if something
catastrophic happens like a fire or hurricane, chances are your data on
drives in two physical locations won't both be destroyed.
CB
On 9/11/14, 9:49 AM, Kayaker wrote:
Hello,
Here is a basic strategy with increasing levels of commitment to your time.
1. The Absolute Barest of Barest
Purchase an external drive that matches the capacity of your internal drive and
use either Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to perform a complete clone of the
drive, making it a bootable volume. If you do this weekly, you'll never lose
more than a weeks worth of work.
2. A reasonable Method
Use plan 1 and add a time machine backup. Either a time capsule, or another
attached drive. If you have a laptop, the time capsule is a nice solution since
you do not need to physically attach the drive. This gives you archive
abilities and reduces the potential loss down to an hour's worth of work.
3. A Basic Plan
Use Plan 2 and add a second backup drive to your plan 1 rotation. In other
words, have two drives that you use for making a clone and use the first drive
on odd number weeks and the second on even numbered weeks. Keep one of those
drives in a different physical location. Thus helping you in case of meteor
strikes or a black hole opening up in your house.
Time machine is fantastic, but it's not enough. I've seen too many time machine
backups fail when it's been needed after a disaster. That is why I think it is
critical to have a cloned bootable drive of your main system. What is nice
about using an app like carbon copy cloner, is that after making the backup, it
will tell you if there are files that it had trouble reading. This is a great
indicator of the health of your data.
Best,
--k
Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the
questions.
On Sep 10, 2014, at 5:46 PM, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Can I get a basic strategy to use for backups? I will use a USB 3.0 500gig
external drive. After I start doing this, I will get closer to upgrading to
Mavericks. I created the bootable USB drive for that today.
I do not plan on cloud backups at least not for a while. Thanks.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
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