OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems like Carbonite, and by the time you pay as much as a 2 tb drive with enclosure would cost, you could have paid for a 5 year subscription to Carbonite. 5 years is as much as you can expect a drive that is used for Time Machine to go. Mine is on the verge of crapping out, so I am considering just paying for an online backup instead. Trouble is, full backup and restore is s l o w . The next tier though has a local drive backup as well as the online backup.
Bob On May 31, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: > bob, > > alternate drive is for redundancy if a drive were ever to poop out and I keep > one off site or in a firesafe if here as well for the theft/fire issue. > > I learned this thru a friend who had a very redundant backup system. only > problem was not good about offsite and there was a fire in the office took > out everything with fire, heat, smoke, and water damage... another friend had > his laptop and the backup drive attached (only one) stolen from his home -- > again SOL. > > also ive had a couple of drives go by a head coming loose and that pretty > much leaves you with nothing to recover... > > main drive system is a redundant raid as well. few hundred buck investment > over the years gives me a nice safety net and this system has spun along fine > now for 5 years w/o any hickups due to the drives. my experience with backup > systems has been total murphy's law. > > watching a few other folks trying to recover from a data disasters has taught > me as they all took huge number of hours (translate that to work hours lost), > bucks in data recovery efforts, and im sure a few weeks of their life > expectancy... > > over the years ive dealt with most kinds of tape and cartridge backup systems > as well with clients and companies ive worked with and most have worked but > talk about a pain to reconstruct, was rarely easy or fast, hence when drives > got cheap enough i moved fast! > > cheers > > jeff > > On May 31, 2012, at 3:33 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > >> Should not need to alternate drives with Time Machine. >> >> Bob > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
