a worry then I'd venture that you need new friends.
Speaking of ad homenim attacks.
Bottom line: The subject of this message is How to make a SOLID Mac
backup plan (emphasis mine). Dropping a copy at a buddy's house
every so often is not a SOLID backup plan (read up on latency).
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On 2011/01/26 04:50, Tom Coradeschi so eloquently wrote:
Wowee! Good for you, Dannyboy. My backups refreshed last night, too. And
the night before. And the night before that. And...
Last time I checked this was the iMac list, not PeeWee's Playhouse.
If you don't like what Dan has to offer,
At 3:51 PM + 01/18/2011, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Great article. I love the Magazine, not sure how similar it is here
in UK though.
From the article, Excluding system files from your backup can save
you a lot of space.
Does anybody know how much space roughly (Snow Leopard)?
A get info
At 3:47 PM -0500 01/18/2011, Dan wrote:
At 9:19 AM -0500 1/18/2011, Al Poulin wrote:
This article by Christopher Breen at Macworld
is the most comprehensive I have seen in a long
time. Also, some of the add-on comments are
excellent, including the idea of testing the
backups.
At 6:30 AM -0500 1/24/2011, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
At 3:47 PM -0500 01/18/2011, Dan wrote:
That's just bad advice, IMO.
1) Cloud storage systems are NOT secure.
[bla de bla de bla de bla - we have heard all of this from Dan before]
But they're still valid points.
A better solution would to
If you do a full install from dvd, it lists as about 11GB from memory.
If you do a minimal install, it is possible to get it to a smidgen over 8GB.
cjc
On 24/01/2011, at 10:30 PM, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
At 3:51 PM + 01/18/2011, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Great article. I love the Magazine, not
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote:
I have become less paranoid about doing back ups such as the old advice of
mailing a back up copy to a friend or burying a copy in the backwoods. ;-) If
something goes wrong these days ido an archival install, apply a combo
update from
At 10:32 AM -0700 1/19/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
The best, most meticulously tested and verified backups in the world
do you no good if they burn up in the same house fire as your
computer. :-)
Software is replaceable; data is not.
yea.
A complete backup (a la CCC or SD) stored off-site
Sorry i missed the opening of this thread but what is the url for that
article.
On 11-01-18 8:51 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Great article. I love the Magazine, not sure how similar it is here in
UK though.
From the article, Excluding system files from your backup can save
you a lot of
Thar ye go..
http://www.macworld.com/article/156601/2011/01/what_how_backup.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbstories
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At 9:19 AM -0500 1/18/2011, Al Poulin wrote:
This article by Christopher Breen at Macworld is
the most comprehensive I have seen in a long
time. Also, some of the add-on comments are
excellent, including the idea of testing the
backups.
At 3:51 PM + 1/18/2011, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Excluding system files from your backup can save you a lot of space.
Does anybody know how much space roughly (Snow Leopard)?
Probably under ten gigs, but it depends on what'all you've installed.
You can find out how much is on YOUR
can i set the TimeMachine to do a back just once a month ?
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Walter,
Not in Time Machine itself. There is a program called Time Machine
Editor that will allow you to change backup times. Or just turn the
automatic backup option off and manually do it when you desire. That is
what I do.
Glenn
On 1/18/11 1:45 PM, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote:
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