Hi Peter, Ronni and Daniel, Thankyou all very much for your time to sort me out on this external drive backup situation, I really appreciate it.
I wasnt aware of what TM actually did, so thanks Peter for the explanation on TM and CCC and what I need to do. Best regards to all Chris On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On 21 Jan 2015, at 9:00 am, Chris Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Ronni, great to hear from you and thanks for your great pdf on how to > set things up for TM. > > > > I have a couple of questions: you mention that TM is for backing up the > hard drive of a mac to a connected external drive. > > > > Can I also use TM to backup from a number of other external drives (3tb > WD) on which I have my previous backups of data/photos/movies/music etc > onto one big drive? What im hoping to do is use a large drive (like the > Seagate or WD 5tb) for the main repository of everything that I can keep > offsite (in the Bank box) and then take it out every 2 weeks to do updates > from my other drives at home? > > > > I’ll chime in here since Ronni hasn’t time to answer: Time Machine should > not really be regarded as backup software per se. Its primary purpose is to > provide a safety valve for those files and resources which get accidentally > deleted, damaged or or altered in undesirable ways. the time Machine > interface makes it incredibly easy to go back to the last known good copy > and recover it so you can keep working with a minimum of fuss. It is by > nature, therefore, to work with the hard drive of any active computer. You > can have multiple computers all using the same TM Drive, and you can set TM > up to use multiple drives, but you cannot tell TM to back up one external > drive to another. That’s not what it’s for. > > For more comprehensive options you should be looking at other solutions, > such as Carbon Copy Cloner, TriBackup, etc. The ideal backup situation > should involve such software anyway. Time Machine is an important and > useful utility, but should not be your only backup resource. I have Time > Machine running all the time, but also do a Carbon Copy Cloner backup every > Sunday. One of the advantages of CCC is that it creates a bootable “clone” > of your hard drive so in times of disaster you can start up from it with > full access to the resources you’re used to, but that’s just one of its > features. It will certainly handle the kind of thing you’re looking to do. > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >
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