On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:11 PM, steve harley wrote: > "safe enough" is entirely relative; it sounds like all your backups are in > one place and you do some of them manually -- what would be the consequences > of a mistake or omission of your manual backup? of a flood or a fire? how > much it matters is up to you ... there are lots of options
Thanks, Steve. > for myself, i also use Time Machine to a 1TB Time Capsule, but i actually > have it omit my photos and a few other bulky items; instead i: I see I've excluded photos from the Time Machine Backups, too. > 1) have Aperture backup photos to a FireWire disk as it load them to from my > SD card to my drive (LR can do this too, i assume) I'm rarely hardware connected to the other drive. I backup to it manually via Wi-Fi. That's almost prohibitively slow already, and will be soon. My thought is to do a hardware-connected backup of images after doing the initial delete of imported images. Sounds like I need to get another USB drive in there to duplicate what's on that drive. I wonder if there's a way all that could be done automatically once I connect to the drives via USB. While I'm at it, what's the advantage of FireWire over USB? > 2) frequently sync my entire system to another backup drive (using Carbon > Copy Cloner) Are you talking about just what's on the hard drive on your machine, or all of it inclusive of what's on your backup drives? And what does this add, besides another backup, to what Time Machine does? Again, thanks. You've given me some ideas and parameters to work with. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
