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.
<http://www.macworld.com/article/156601/2011/01/what_how_backup.html>
Overall, a decent article.
But I TOTALLY disagree with the use of the cloud storage services, tho:
--> For the crème de la crème of your data collection-your iPhoto library
--> and iMovie projects, for example-add an online storage service.
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]
A better solution would to be give a copy of
your (encrypted or not) backup to a *friend*,
for storage in his/her sock drawer.
Well, I'll stack up my daily (once per computer)
backup to Mozy against your ?how recent? copy at
"a friend's house". Any day.
See, I have a backup strategy, you have Hope (as
in "I Hope that I have the right stuff on the
backup and I Hope that I haven't created
something I care about since the last time I did
a backup and I Hope that my buddy didn't decide
to use the disk to make offline copies of all his
child porn so his wife won't find it...").
As we say in my business "Hope is not an engineering term".
Tom - Psychoengineer Emeritus; North Jersey, USA, Earth.
--
tom coradeschi
[email protected]
--
You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group
for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs.
The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette
guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To leave this group, send email to [email protected]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
