I would watch what it does to the battery and data on a Surface. It tends to
work quietly in the background and therefore could eat up both of out and
about. Also I believe you need a separate account per computer. A scheduled
back up (eg at 3 am) to a machine with a hard drive attached would mean you can
store both on one account (the machine with the drive).
Cheers,
-Jason
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On 28 Jul 2020 at 14:32:41 BST, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks all. Will investigate.
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> On 28 Jul 2020, at 10:53, 'C Staples' via Sussex Mac User Group
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Me too - I have been a BackBlaze user for about 5 years. I have not had any
> catastrophes in that time so not had reason to call on it in a big way. I
> have on occasion though needed a file that is resident on my home Mac whilst
> I am away and the download process through the browser is very easy and
> efficient.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>> On 28 Jul 2020, at 10:40, 'Phil Ward' via Sussex Mac User Group
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I can recommend BackBlaze too. I’ve been using it for year and been very
>> impressed. Technical support is very good too. I needed to use it in anger
>> once, and it all worked faultlessly.
>>
>> P
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>>> On 28 Jul 2020, at 08:22, Graham Street <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I’d recommend BackBlaze as it works on all those platforms. Even if you
>>> have TM and external HDD the backups are still onsite and therefore
>>> vulnerable.
>>>
>>> It’s free to trial. This signup link will give you (and me) a free month if
>>> you use it to sign up.
>>>
>>> https://secure.backblaze.com/r/008aop
>>>
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>>>> On 28 Jul 2020, at 07:42, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Morning Smuggers, back-up solution suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> About to become a “mixed economy” IT household. Mostly apple products, all
>>>> but one of which back up to iCloud.
>>>>
>>>> But my wife has a new MacBook Pro and my daughter is about to have a new
>>>> MS surface for school. Both use a variety of cloud services for file
>>>> storage of one sort or another. I am thinking more about making sure that
>>>> we also have a “disk image” for them.
>>>>
>>>> For those two, what’s the easiest/most convenient way to back them (the
>>>> devices) up? I don’t mind if cloud or on site but both need to be
>>>> automatic.
>>>>
>>>> External hdd plus time machine the obvious easy solution for MacBook but
>>>> what about the surface? Long time since I’ve had to admin a windows
>>>> product at home.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Russell
>>>>
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