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 bootbale USB drive for that today.
I do not plan on cloud backups at least not for a while. Thanks.
From The Bel
Of course, Time Machine will perform local backups, whether to a USB disk or
Time Capsule or to another Mac running Server. Those are good to have, even if
you use remote cloud backups, too.
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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
I like these, however, you've missed cloud solutions such as Carbonite, who I
especially like. They are fully automated, need no baby sitting, and, are both
off site and continuous.
Carbonite also allows for versioning, so if like me, once upon a time you saved
over the top of hours worth of wo
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 phy
Neil, please tell us how accessible the Carbonite website interface is in terms
of versioning. I am currently using dropbox and their versioning is difficult
at best. I would consider switching to Carbonite if it is a better user
experience. Thanks for anything you can tell us.
Sent from my IPh
Finally took some time to review the responses to my query. I just
looked up Time Capsule and its intriguing.
If I understand it correctly, this is a router and storage device
that my devices can access wirelessky? The 2terabyte model is $299. I
only have a 500gig Iomega so would need mo
The Time Capsule is local, to your house anyway. Data duplication is good, buy
why not consider local and cloud backups? Or, at least, get iTunes Match to
save all your music files, then get some extra iCloud storage and keep all your
documents there? I do this with Dropbox now, and I love knowi
Perhaps I am old fashioned and want full control of my data. Online
storage is great in concept but, and isn't there always that 'but'?
I hope this will not turn into a full blown 'pros vs cons'
discussion. There are plenty of both. What it comes down to is what one
needs and what is fea
I'm a huge fan of offsite backups; if that Time Capsule goes down, or if some
disaster happens, a cloud-based backup would be completely unaffected. Yes,
there are many things to consider, and if Dropbox or iCloud isn't your thing,
perhaps Carbonite or Crashplan could work for you? They both off
Is there a way of keeping track of how many of the 25,000 allotment have been
used?
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On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 2:03 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Backup Strategies
Its not that I am concerned about security so much as I am of losing
access to off site data. Yeah that may be a stretch but if you totally
lose your lcoal hardware, how do you remember your access information to
get that data and put it on new hardware? The concept is good tho.
25,000.
You can also use Arq from Haystack Software to back up to various places,
including Amazon S3/Glacier and Google Drive. Depending on your needs this is
free or very, very cost-effective. It's 100% accessible.
http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/index.php
But I thought the OP said he wasn't loo
FWIW, I do think that cloud backups are awesome, but you should be careful not
to give up control either. Remember, "The cloud" is code for "Someone else's
computer". It is true that off-site backups protect you from local disaster,
but it is probably also true that such disasters are given mu
I've not had to use it personally must confess, however, the interface is
available via the site and they do have telephone tech support that Drop Box
does not.
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I had always wondered how reasonable it would be to do some kind of
backup co-op. For example, if I could figure out how to share a drive on
the internet for somebody else and they did the same for me, I could
backup my stuff to their drive and vice versa. As a co-op neither of us
would pay the
You just described a free feature offered by Crashplan. You can back files up
to a friend's computer, and/or they to yours, and it's free. Crashplan also
offers free backups to local drives, but honestly that sounds like Time Machine
so would only help Windows users I imagine.
On Sep 12, 2014, a
Its too easy to get carried away and use third party apps to do what
built in apps can do. I have done this in Windows. Its not a bad thing
to look to the outside of course. But I am starting to get comfortable
now with the Mac and am probably going to make the switch this month
from Windows
No, Time Machine does not compress, so you can browse right to a file and grab
it if you need to. It uses sim links and other tricks to minimize the size of
backups, but no compression. Automator is not a data app, it is used to
automate tasks like opening apps or renaming files. It's very usefu
Time Capsule is an excellent choice. In addition to being a network backup
target, it's also an 802.11AC Wi-Fi base station and router. So it can make
your network go faster and more reliably, too. :)
Back To My Mac is actually supported by Time Capsule, too, which means that if
you shared an
I know nothing about Time Capsule management, but could you not partition the
drive? If you have 3TB of space, maybe divide it up, giving 1TB to general
media storage so all the computers in the house can access that content, then
2TB to Time Machine backups?
On Sep 13, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Sabahat
Even Apple say that Time Capsules are too slow to use to open content from, but
if you have more than one Mac, you can set them all up to use the same Time
Capsule and it will organise itself as neded so that each machine has a unique
set of backups.
On 13 Sep 2014, at 13:30, Alex Hall wrote:
Unfortunately, there's no ability to partition the internal disk of Time
Capsule. You could partition an external disk and connect it, but for the
internal disk the only real option is to take the thing apart and partition the
disk using a Mac. You can set up multiple users, but that doesn't p
I think Time Capsule is my ideal solution. But until I get one, I
will see how well the 500g external drive does. Probably not too badly.
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On 9/12/2014 10:59 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Time Capsule is an excel
Hi!
Match is great if you have a lot of music and not unlimited space of harddrive.
The price is not that bad either.
THe only thing i have to check is how to remove items from match and my local
mac as i have songs there i don't want.
/A
12 sep 2014 kl. 21:02 skrev Alex Hall :
> I'm a huge fan o
I wouldn't use Match as a backup, first because your lossless rips will all be
downgraded to 256 KB AAC, and second because not all tracks are eligible. It
is an excellent solution, but for conserving space on your iOS device more than
anything, IMO. My iPad has Match off; my iPod and iPhone h
Hi!
Well i wasn't suggesting match as a bacup either.
Its a great feature if you want all your music from all devices all around the
world all day all night.
14 sep 2014 kl. 09:44 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu :
> I wouldn't use Match as a backup, first because your lossless rips will all
> be down
Now that my Win7 VM is working great, I want to protect it. I know there are
snapshots that I can take on a scheduled basis, but I don't like that option
and I understand that snapshots aren't really backups anyway.
Currently, I have the MAC HD setup to take four weeks worth of backups via
Supe
I do the same thing with time machine. But I also copy my VMWare folder to an
external USB, just in case. YOu never know what could happen. HTH
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That should work fine, I also don't use snap shots, just back up the
file on another hard drive.
Original message:
Now that my Win7 VM is working great, I want to protect it. I know
there are snapshots that I can take on a scheduled basis, but I don't
like that option and I understand that snap
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