Hi all,
Question about how I am doing backups as I want to ensure I'm doing this right.
I've got an external 2.5" 500gb USB drive that I use for the backups. I'm using Carbon Copy Cloner (not using Time Machine because I have to encrypt my backups, so using Truecrypt to make an encrypted container on the external HD. I'm only giving this info because otherwise someone might just say use TM and that does not support encrypted backups at 256).
I did a full backup of the entire MBP hardrive about a month ago to the external drive. Then every week after that I have just been doing incremental backups, just backing up things that have been changed or added to the MBP hardrive.
My question is: Do I ever need to do a full backup again, or can I continue to do incremental backups every week (or however often I decide to, maybe get to once a day)?
Is there a better method I could use (offsite is not a option)?
Thanks,
Matt
Question about how I am doing backups as I want to ensure I'm doing this right.
I've got an external 2.5" 500gb USB drive that I use for the backups. I'm using Carbon Copy Cloner (not using Time Machine because I have to encrypt my backups, so using Truecrypt to make an encrypted container on the external HD. I'm only giving this info because otherwise someone might just say use TM and that does not support encrypted backups at 256).
I did a full backup of the entire MBP hardrive about a month ago to the external drive. Then every week after that I have just been doing incremental backups, just backing up things that have been changed or added to the MBP hardrive.
My question is: Do I ever need to do a full backup again, or can I continue to do incremental backups every week (or however often I decide to, maybe get to once a day)?
Is there a better method I could use (offsite is not a option)?
Thanks,
Matt