Back Ups as a CONCEPT is an ENDLESS TOPIC... iPods could also be used... > From: Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:27:39 -0500 (CDT) > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: moving MUD folder > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Arkady wrote: > >> I found SuperDuper >> http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html >> >> To be the easiest, simplest Backup Policy for me... >> >> Clone your entire Hard Drive = sleep nice! The 1st Backup of my 80GB worth >> of Data took abut 1.5hrs, after that Smart Replace is 10-11 minutes to >> Update the Clone... And it's one of the easiest and best supported apps I >> have ever seen... > > That's great if you have a whole spare drive for it. And it's a reasonable > solution for some issues. Do you keep the drive off-line and fully > disconnected at other times. It's not impossible for some glitch to > simultaneously kill all you drives at once. And if plugged in, lightning > could fry everything at once. > > What if your house burns down? As I mentioned in another note, one of my > backups is done to DVD and taken off-site. > > Different risks require different strategies and they're somewhat mutually > exclusive. I see three main risks: Loss of the system or disk; loss of a > file (inadvertent deletion, etc.); loss of the site. For loss of a file or > a disk, you want your backups close at hand. For loss of the site, you > want your backups off-site. You could cover that all three with one backup > kept off-site but then for that inadvertent deletion risk, your recovery > time will be much longer. > > -- Larry Stone > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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