Hi Adam, Hi Peter. Some experiences:
On my main computer I use directly connected disks for TM backups and Superduper clones - USB & FW respectively but since almost all my important stuff is also in the cloud, on either Dropbox or OneDrive, I have TM set to manual and just connect the drives when I need to do a backup - my thinking being to avoid a power surge/lightning strike taking out both the computer AND connected backups! However, I do use a NAS for TM backups of a second computer and a laptop. At the moment these do not get a lot of use and, again, I do the YM backups manually - but the TM network backup all seems to work OK. From memory, the trickiest bit was me deciding how to setup the NAS - to RAID or not to RAID, setting up user permissions so different users had their own space on the NAS, setting up a media server (as yet unused!) and then setting up another space for the TM backups. However, I am known to complicate things and I did want the NAS to fulfil several purposes! I would imagine that if you just wanted to use the NAS for TM purposes, and used a simple RAID setup, you could have a good TM solution with protection against a single HD failure in the NAS - still doesn't help if lightning takes out the whole box! Just my musings - HTH Cheers Neil -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Adam Lippiatt <[email protected]> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 09 October 2020 at 13:01 To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Subject: Re: TC Backups to a full disc drive Hi Peter Presently I run two drives connected to my iMac (one by Thunderbolt, one by USB) one backing up a time machine backup and one using Carbon Copy Cloner software to make another backup. I swap out one of the drives from time to time and keep that drive at a separate location. I have only had one hard drive fail and that was the “fusion” drive in this iMac. It was very very handy to have a backup to hand when the iMacs drive was replaced. However, I would like to go wireless for backup, my only attempt being just to add a usb connected drive to a Time Capsule (for a second backup to the Time Capsule itself), but I found it to be too slow. One idea for a monthly meeting topic I would be interested in, is a home network guru providing a guide to running wireless backups to multiple backup drives and whether that requires / is better with a NAS (which I don’t really understand) or via hard drives connected to a wireless router with a fast USB connection. Adam > On 9 Oct 2020, at 12:26 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Adam, thanks for that. What do you do instead for your backups? > > Pete. > >> On 9 Oct 2020, at 12:07 pm, Adam Lippiatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Peter >> >> That is good news. >> >> On a side note I gave up using hard drives connected via usb to the TC because they were very slow to transfer data. I read somewhere that this is because the USB port on the TC is slow speed. >> >> Adam >> >>>> On 9 Oct 2020, at 12:02 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I just thought I would add my recent awareness of this. In the 10 years + of using the Apple Time Capsule (with 3 USB hub connected external drives) I hadn’t yet reached the point where any of the Macbook backups had reached a full state on their respective drives. My own MBP back up drive on the TC (a 2TB HDD) reached this state during this week and I waited anxiously for it to either have a hissy fit or proceed as anticipated and free up space by deleting oldest backup content. >>> >>> I am pleased to say the latter resulted - with a message popup which said it will delete oldest content to make way for new backup content. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Pete. >>> -- 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> >> -- 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> > > -- 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> -- 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> -- 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>
