Brilliant. I’m inspired. (I presume you can program Time Machine to use drive A on Mon, Wed, Fri, drive B on Tues, Thurs, Sat kind of thing?).
> On 11 Nov 2022, at 9:45 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 11/10/22 12:40 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: >> I think my odds are better using a cloud >> service than my own efforts at maintaining things. > > I do both local and cloud backups. If you haven't set up Time Machine I > highly recommend it. I have two backup drives on my Mac and Time Machine > alternates backups between them. I never have to think about it, and it's > saved me more times than I can count, especially when I save a stack and > later find out I introduced problems. I just grab the last working copy and > get back to work. When I travel, I put one of the drives in a safe place at > home and take the other one with me, just in case. That came in handy once > when I had to review a script to answer a client's question while I was out > of town. SSD drives are just a little larger than a cigarette pack, > inexpensive, and easy to carry. > > I also have Google Drive set up to automatically backup a few important > folders including my client folder. That way I have essentially three backups > of the important stuff. The good part is that I don't have to do anything at > all, the copies take care of themselves. > > The initial setup happened a couple of decades ago when I lost everything. My > Mac's hard drive failed suddenly and my entire digital life went with it. I'm > obsessive now. It's entirely possible to be lazy about backups and still have > them. > > BTW, one or the other backup drives has failed a couple of times over the > years. I take the dead one offline and Time Machine will continue to backup > to the other one until I can get a replacement. This happens about every 3-5 > years. > > I haven't lost any data since the original catastrophe. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
