What about cloud backup services like crashplan or backblaze.
https://www.backblaze.com/ https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/ I personally use backblaze for myself and family. It has saved my family member in the past when they got hit by a crypto virus. I was able to restore from a specific date in time before the crypto virus hit. Regards Adrian Halid From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2017 7:02 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: [OT] iMac backups I'd go for TimeMachine as well. Just plug a external drive in, and turn Time Machine on for it. Or googledrive or dropbox if it needs to be offsite. (has anyone used these successfully as a target drive for time machine?) On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Steven Parish <ste...@businesscraft.com.au <mailto:ste...@businesscraft.com.au> > wrote: I just had the experience of a crashing macbook pro - short story, the "timemachine" backup worked flawlessly for me - did a full backup of about 400GB and restored it on a fresh install - all this done by the nice people at my local apple store on the weekend (they also replaced the logic board under warranty even though I was outside the 2 year warranty period). I have always been a windows person, but I'm definitely liking the apple experience (still develop under parallels which was about 200gb for the image and this restored perfectly). Have been running for a full day now with no black screen shutdowns! Life is much better. :) Regards, Steven Parish Managing Director BusinessCraft Pty Ltd Address: Level 1, 270 Turton Road, New Lambton NSW 2305 Mail: PO Box 57, Lambton NSW 2299 M: 0417 688 599 <tel:0417%20688%20599> | T: 02 4965 5555 <tel:(02)%204965%205555> | F: 02 4965 5333 <tel:(02)%204965%205333> www.businesscraft.com.au <http://www.businesscraft.com/> On 24 January 2017 at 09:19, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com <mailto:gfke...@gmail.com> > wrote: Folks, I have to take a snapshot of about 9GB of files on my El Capitan iMac. On Windows I would plugin a stick or portable and run robocopy with the /XD and /XF switches to exclude junk, but I'm not sure what the equivalent is on OSX. Does anyone have a handy technique for doing this sort of thing? Perhaps there are mysterious Unix commands I can use from the Terminal prompt -- Greg K -- Meski <http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv> http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
