Great idea! Thanks for sharing. I don't trust the cloud entirely and have my computer backed up to 3 separate portable hard drives daily using Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper. I am trying to determine a cloud service now. Am looking at Amazon. I am going to a paperless system for my information so backups are a must!
Nora On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]>wrote: > A bullet-proof backup strategy relies on multiple locations for your data. > A cloud location should only SUPPLEMENT your strategy. > > If you are really paranoid (like me): > > 1. Undelete and versioning: Time Machine > 2. Local archiving: spare hard drive just to get stuff off your main > computer but you don't want to throw away > 3. Minor disaster recovery (hard drive dies): Nightly clone > 4. Major disaster recovery (fire, tornado, theft): Cloud backup > > And for extreme security you can double up on any of these. For instance, > I have several RAID drives that mirror the same data to two hard drives > simultaneously that occupy key positions in my strategy. (I do have two > cloud services, but for different content.) > > Adjust strategy to suit your needs. > > j. > > > On Jun 2, 2012, at 10:39 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Oh so true Ed, I would never rely on a Cloud as my backup source, maybe > for work in progress or syncing calendars and contacts but never for > something of vital importance.....still will have local storage for the > above items as well. > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker 9/10/11 Certified Developer > > Fletcher Data Consulting > [email protected] > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > Personal Blog o'Stuff: http://jfletch.posterous.com > > Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group > Next up: 12 at 12, from the "Mothership!" > Thursday, June 14, 12:00 pm to 3:30-ish > Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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