I like these, however, you've missed cloud solutions such as Carbonite, who I especially like. They are fully automated, need no baby sitting, and, are both off site and continuous.
Carbonite also allows for versioning, so if like me, once upon a time you saved over the top of hours worth of work, no problem, Carbonite keeps versions of all files you create for up to, I believe three months. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 11 Sep 2014, at 14:49, Kayaker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
