Hello, Here is a basic strategy with increasing levels of commitment to your time.
1. The Absolute Barest of Barest Purchase an external drive that matches the capacity of your internal drive and use either Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to perform a complete clone of the drive, making it a bootable volume. If you do this weekly, you'll never lose more than a weeks worth of work. 2. A reasonable Method Use plan 1 and add a time machine backup. Either a time capsule, or another attached drive. If you have a laptop, the time capsule is a nice solution since you do not need to physically attach the drive. This gives you archive abilities and reduces the potential loss down to an hour's worth of work. 3. A Basic Plan Use Plan 2 and add a second backup drive to your plan 1 rotation. In other words, have two drives that you use for making a clone and use the first drive on odd number weeks and the second on even numbered weeks. Keep one of those drives in a different physical location. Thus helping you in case of meteor strikes or a black hole opening up in your house. Time machine is fantastic, but it's not enough. I've seen too many time machine backups fail when it's been needed after a disaster. That is why I think it is critical to have a cloned bootable drive of your main system. What is nice about using an app like carbon copy cloner, is that after making the backup, it will tell you if there are files that it had trouble reading. This is a great indicator of the health of your data. Best, --k Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On Sep 10, 2014, at 5:46 PM, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote: > Can I get a basic strategy to use for backups? I will use a USB 3.0 500gig > external drive. After I start doing this, I will get closer to upgrading to > Mavericks. I created the bootable USB drive for that today. > > I do not plan on cloud backups at least not for a while. Thanks. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
