Comment from Steve Nicholson
I feel like I have my backup bases covered: a Time Machine backup, a weekly clone with Carbon Copy Cloner, and my home directory backed up to CrashPlan's servers. When a lightning strike took out my...
View ArticleComment from Scott Rose
Two minor corrections to this article:1. If your entire disk dies, you can still recover just a small piece of your Time Machine backup. Simply install OS X on your new hard drive without using...
View ArticleComment from Mike Schienle
As long as we're going wayback here, I'll bring up one of the most interesting loss of data instances I've encountered. This was 1984 or 1985 and our company, Honeywell, had a bunch of new Macs in the...
View ArticleComment from Joe Kissell
I get what you're saying, but the end result of your procedure will be having only a minimal installation, and only a small subset of your files—most likely not enough to do meaningful work with—and...
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My favorite RAID story was the client that called and said 'our server files just reverted back 7 months!' I visited and found that the mirror broke 7 months ago when one drive went off line and now...
View ArticleComment from Lee Joramo
12.Not testing your Backups. Regularly test restoring to ensure that it is working as you expect. Maybe the backup is not actually working, or you did not include all of your important files, or...
View ArticleComment from Joe Kissell
I definitely talk about testing your backups in my book, and it is a recurring theme here on TidBITS too—every Friday the 13th, we celebrate International Verify Your Backups Day!I don't think there's...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Great point about the verification - that's why I came up with International Verify Your Backups Day!http://tidbits.com/article/10071
View ArticleComment from Tonya Engst
Steve, your comment here made me think of a story from the 1980s when many of us were becoming accustomed to working with word processors. During my summer job before my Junior year of college, one of...
View ArticleComment from Vincy Logan
I personally is using time machine and cloudbacko. The strategy is to backup all things in mac thru time machine and my favorite photos and files thru cloudbacko to free cloud storage such as OneDrive....
View ArticleComment from Michael B
Back in the day of floppy disks, I remember when BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh User's Group) suggested that you should have backups on 3 disks. The reasoning was that if you put the first disk in and it...
View ArticleComment from Dale
This reminds me of an equally comical (though frustrating) experience I had while working in the college computer lab in the 80s. A student writing her senior thesis had continual problems with data...
View ArticleComment from Mark3785
This is my backup regimen, but first some rules:1) Become anal retentive about backups. Don't worry, it'll happen naturally after your first catastrophic failure.2) Lose any resistance to good deals on...
View ArticleComment from Mark3785
Now for my backup regimen: I keep 5 backups (incremental) of my boot drive, two daily, done 12 hours apart. Two weekly done 3.5 days apart, and a monthly done the first Sunday of every month. I have a...
View ArticleComment from Doug Lerner
Years ago my stupid backup strategy was to wait until I heard of a friend or colleague having a drive crash disaster and then said to myself, "I guess I should run a backup now."But for years now I...
View ArticleComment from Joe Kissell
That's pretty extreme even by my standards (which is saying something). Sounds pretty good!
View ArticleComment from Joe Kissell
Sounds very similar to what I do. I love those 2.5-inch, bus-powered hard drive. I have maybe half a dozen of them. They're handy for backups even at home, because they take up almost no space and...
View ArticleComment from nrkmann
In 1988 I went to Europe with a Mac SE and a 100MB ($2500 at the time) CMS external drive. I called CMS and was assured that all their power supplies were auto switching 120/220 VAC 60/50 cycle. Just...
View ArticleComment from B. Jefferson Le Blanc
I suggest your strategy is inadequate by Joe's standards. You need at least a local clone of your system and all your data. Your photos in the cloud are subject to all sorts of problems - bandwidth...
View ArticleComment from Mark3785
My friends have fun making fun of me but actually it really isn't all that extreme if you realize that the collection of drives wasn't all done at once but took a few years to accumulate. Finding a 1...
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