Time capsule will work great if your machine has a newer OS! One of the choices when starting a new mac for the first time is to transfer your setting from a time machine backup.
Something else cool I discovered about time machine backups recently is that if you have two USB hard drives attached to your computer with time machine set up on both, it will alternate backups between the two. A one hour, B the next hour, then A again, then B again etc. So for an off-site strategy you could run the two drives side by side during the working week, then eject and take away drive A at the weekend, then bring it back after a fortnight or month or whatever, let the two drives run side by side again for a few days and then take drive B away next time. The backup that's taken away will always be slightly old, which is a disadvantage compared to some sort of online synchronising, but on the plus side it doesn't use any bandwidth, and if your computer were to get stolen or house burned down, there would be a good chance that your backup hard drive would also get stolen/burn down at the same time so having something off site is an important consideration when backing up. On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 at 11:11, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m very much a Backblaze fan. I’ve had to use it in earnest on one > occasion and it performed perfectly. I previously used Carbonite but found > it somewhat unintuitive and clunky – might be better now though of course. > > Phil > > ---- > Phil Ward > > Skype: aphilw > E: [email protected] > > W: philward.biz > W: audio-icons.com > W: musicandmiscellany.com > W: peggysdiaries.wordress.com > W: soundcloud.com/philberish > > • Freelance writer and product designer. > • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com > . > • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. > > On 25 Aug 2017, at 10:57, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hear lots of positives about Backblaze too. > Just a question though, I do a physical Timemachine backup and keep it > offsite. My hope is that when needed, I just plug it in to a new Mac and > off we go. > > But... > > 1. Will that work if my replacement Mac has a newer OS? (mindful of file > storage changes coming in High Sierra and I'm still on Mavericks) > 2. How helpful is something like Backblaze in that instance, or is there > some online cloning tool?! > > Just want piece of mind! > > Adam > > On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 6:42:43 PM UTC+1, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: >> >> Carbonite are very good, as are Backblaze. Shame about Crashplan, I use >> it for backing up between my different computers, will have to do it >> manually now! >> >> Sam >> [image: MacAmbulance] >> MacAmbulance Ltd. 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