Hehe, Lots of different opinions on this, no doubt it all depends on the importance of your info and your level of concern/paranoia from the ultra-conservative:
Time machine backup to RAID+ Bootable Clone to Raid+ Rotating off-site backup+ Cloud storage back-up All the way down to more streamlined (& economic) solutions! Personally, I have: * Bootable clone on external Firewire drive * Time machine backup to external USB drive (though I use this manually rather than automatically) * A Dropbox account at present used more for synching between machines rather than backup * Mobileme iDisk (I haven¹t really decided on the best role for this yet) * An older firewire 1TB dual drive (2x 500GB) set-up as a 500GB mirrored Raid I use this mainly for stuff that I want some protection for but loss would not be a tragedy eg some ripped DVDs and older clones of virtual machines that I should probably erase but I¹m not quite sure yet! It really boils down to what is important to you! - and remember that you do not necessarily need the same strategy for all your data those YouTube downloads really aren¹t as important as the family photos or the draft of your literary masterpiece! Having said that, with the price of storage coming down all the time, for general use, I tend to think that simple duplication of drives can be more useful than the complexity of RAID. Just my thoughts ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 7/1/11 6:52 PM, [email protected] at [email protected] wrote: > hi > > to those who do frequent backups: do you backup your important stuff to raid > or just a normal external hard drive/portable drive will do it for you? > > i have my stuff backed up to a WD portable drive already, but thinking i can > ditch that for a raid, but raid is not as portable as my current. > > any advise. > > many thanks! > > regards > Lynn > > p/s: love my ipad!!!!! cant live without it! > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
