I keep my ITUNES library and my photos on an external hard drive connected via a USB cable to my AEBS which is connected wirelessly to my MacBook Pro.
This is a necessity, because I have more media than I do MacBook space.
Please skip the lecture about the practicalities of baking up larger amounts of data online. Assume I want to do it, and have the patience for a month-long online backup. Once I get that backup done, it is not as if I add lots of new data. At that point, it will be a very limited incremental update process.
Please skip the lecture about alternative backup options like a second drive that I copy and take to some other location on a regular basis. My life and schedule aren't conducive to that sort of thing. Plus, I know myself, and know I would probably be less consistent with that practice than the preciousness of my data deserves.
So, with those pre-rebuttals out of the way:
Every service that advertises online backup offered for the Mac such as Mozy or Carbonite does now allow you to backup external drives connected to your AEBS to be picked as a choice such that you can then select files on those drives to back up.
Is there a service out there that allows this? Is there a way I can accomplish this?
PS Obviously, my preference would be to find a service that has a Mozy-like flat fee for unlimited backup.
PPS Also, I would very much prefer to find a service that allows you to buy discs or a hard drive that can be mailed to you for a restore. Frankly, I think a lot of people are kidding themselves about the usefulness of any online backup service that only allows restores via online download. Unless you're dealing with less than 10G of data, I doubt most of us are willing to wait the time it will take to download 10+gigs of data after a major crash where all of our files are lost.
This is a necessity, because I have more media than I do MacBook space.
Please skip the lecture about the practicalities of baking up larger amounts of data online. Assume I want to do it, and have the patience for a month-long online backup. Once I get that backup done, it is not as if I add lots of new data. At that point, it will be a very limited incremental update process.
Please skip the lecture about alternative backup options like a second drive that I copy and take to some other location on a regular basis. My life and schedule aren't conducive to that sort of thing. Plus, I know myself, and know I would probably be less consistent with that practice than the preciousness of my data deserves.
So, with those pre-rebuttals out of the way:
Every service that advertises online backup offered for the Mac such as Mozy or Carbonite does now allow you to backup external drives connected to your AEBS to be picked as a choice such that you can then select files on those drives to back up.
Is there a service out there that allows this? Is there a way I can accomplish this?
PS Obviously, my preference would be to find a service that has a Mozy-like flat fee for unlimited backup.
PPS Also, I would very much prefer to find a service that allows you to buy discs or a hard drive that can be mailed to you for a restore. Frankly, I think a lot of people are kidding themselves about the usefulness of any online backup service that only allows restores via online download. Unless you're dealing with less than 10G of data, I doubt most of us are willing to wait the time it will take to download 10+gigs of data after a major crash where all of our files are lost.