This is a really helpful thread about a really important topic. One thing I'd love to ask is how to check that TimeMachine is doing its job?
I did try to boot and restore from my TimeMachine but the only option it offered on startup was for a very old backup. I didn't have time to investigate so simply copied a cloned drive across. Any tips on one checking that all is doing as it should from time to time? Thanks Adam On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 3:16:54 PM UTC, Stephen McW wrote: > > Another thing I’d add is about trying to go paperless if you can. I did > this primarily in order to get rid of my filing cabinet (which I did - > yay!) but it also meant that I could find everything more easily on the Mac > too. I realised later that a bonus I’d not considered was that it means > that all my important documents, of which I have only one copy, are now > duplicated off-site on my backups. When I had only the physical copies then > they could have all been destroyed were something horrible to happen to the > house. > > Stephen > > > "David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, > charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and > musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of > it and it was *so* good. There are great people who make great work but > who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.” ~ Kate Bush > > On 2 Feb 2016, at 14:25, Derek Wright <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I have about 2.5TB of data spread over 4 partitions on 3 drives, these are > backed up each night to an internal 3TB drive, then a further back up is > done nightly to a 3TB external drive. Every two weeks or so or after a > major addition of data to the system an additional 3 TB drive is connected > to the system to create a further full back up. This final drive is kept in > the garden shed about 100 feet from the house. > > I also run Time Machine to a 4TB drive in a Time Capsule. > > Superduper is used for all the backing up - all drives are connected as > SATA or eSata drives in a Mac Pro tower. > > Why the paranoia - my cousins house was burnt down and he lost all his > family records, pictures history the lot. Only his two dogs survived, he > was out at the time and arrived home to the smoke and fire engines. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
