What is your backup plan

I use my internal, optibay'd 640GB hard drive for TM backups on my mbp. SSD as main drive.

I'm just too lazy to get another external drive for backups.

1 Local time machine (time capsule)

5 external hard drives duplicate data

Crash plan : laptops and external drives -> crashplan cloudserver
Crash plan : valuable files -> my server onsite
Crash plan : valuable files -> my server offsite
Crash plan : valuable files -> other laptops on the network

I backup to my Time Capsule locally every day, and once a month I do a updated offsite-backup on a external harddrive that is on the family cottage almost four hours away from home.

Two off site backups and 1 local backup. My best friend works for Code42 (Crashplan) so I got a free Crashplan Enterprise account. I have put my entire family on this account and everyone is backed up to it while I administer the account.

The local is a network drive connected to a Tomato router, my gf and I are backed up to. The NAS has our media on it which is also backed up to Crashplan off-site.

I backup hourly via Time Machine to a LaCie hard drive.

All my files (not including my iPhoto and iTunes) are also in DropBox.

I back up hourly to Time Machine, and to Time Capsule externally.

I have a 2TB WD drive that I do Time Machine backups to. Any super-important (work) files are also on Dropbox or Google Drive.

Each member of our family also has all photos stored locally on their laptop, so photos are also safe.

I have a Mac with a 256GB internal SSD and two external drives (one for iTunes and one for photography).

I have a 3 prong backup solution:

1. Time machine for my startup disk
2. Online backup with Backblaze for all my drives
3. Once a month I backup all my drives to standard internal hard drives via a USB Drive toaster (such as http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Docking-Station-ASMedia-Chipset/dp/B003UI62AG/). I then store these drives at my rented storage facility which it temperature controlled.

All my personal files sync to my Dropbox, but I also have a local NAS that I do a dump to every month or two.

I've once lost a considerable amount of data, so I know to backup my stuff, but I suppose my solution is maybe a tad excessive:
- Full time machine backup on it's own dedicated external HDD
- Copies of all of my files on my NAS drive (separate from the external HDD)
- Copies of all of the important documents on a USB thumb drive I carry with me
- Dropbox account with all the important files (thinking about getting an F-Secure Younited account after Condoleezza Rice joined the Dropbox board of directors)
- Random backups of important data here and there

Used to have a full disc clone that I updated once a week, but I concluded it was beyond overkill with the time machine and other backups.

All my files are backed up to my google drive and an external hard drive.

I manually back most things up to an external firewire HDD.

Not very sophisticated I know, we really need to set up some kind of networked storage for the house.

3dflyboy1 said:

I use my internal, optibay'd 640GB hard drive for TM backups on my mbp. SSD as main drive.

I'm just too lazy to get another external drive for backups.

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If it is lost, stolen, dies in a fire, or some malware trashes your drives what will you do to get your data back? An internal backup is marginally useful.

TimeMachine to Seagate GoFlex Ultra Portable 500GB.

Barney63 said:

I have a TimeCapsule doing the regular backups and also an HDD with a copy of my media on it.

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I also do my backups this way.

Oh Man. I have about 14 External Hard drives that I keep my backups on.

Some are pictures only, some are time machines. Some are music and Movies only.

Then I also have a Samsung 840 EVO 500Gb SSD in a USB 3.0 Enclosure that is a direct clone of my 15" Retina MacBook Pro. Once a month or every other month, I use carbon copy cloner to back up to that drive.

I then also pay for 100Gb of Dropbox storage and am grandfather in Google's old storage plans (5$ a year for 25Gb plus 15GB free then email storage) of which backup certain apps, pics and documents.

I use tar to create a .tgz file of my important folders, then I encrypt it with an OpenSSL script I wrote. I'll copy the file to an external hard drive I keep offline, then upload a copy to Google Drive. Every few months I delete the oldest copy off Google Drive to save some space. That way I always have a local and offsite copy and both are safe from theft/prying eyes. I've only needed a backup once and the system worked well.

I just use a WD Passport I got in 2008 and do my backups manually.