The last time I owned a Mac was back in the System 7 days (SE and IIci), but after a long and winding road with Suns and PCs I am finally back with a brand new MBP 17". Actually, I have not seen it yet as I'm on a extended business trip but it is waiting for me at home together with an Optibay kit, a 1TB Scorpio Blue and a 80GB Intel X25-M G2 (reused from an old PC). The MBP will mainly be used for Internet browsing, Lightroom and once in a while WoW. I would appreciate if anyone can give me some advice on my thoughts about a backup strategy.
I intend to have two partitions on the SSD, one 60GB for OS X and one 20GB for Win7 (Parallels or VMWare). Both of these will regularly be mirrored to similar partitions on the 1TB drive (SuperDuper?).
The remaining 900GB data partition on the WD disk is backed up using TimeMachine to my QNAP NAS (via iSCSI) when at home. The NAS is automatically backed up to a connected eSATA drive.
In addition to this I will put the internal 500GB disk that came with the MBP in a FW enclosure and bring it with me when traveling. This way I can back up my photos and Lightroom data even while on the road for a couple of weeks (can TimeMachine be used for this too?).
Does it make sense?
I intend to have two partitions on the SSD, one 60GB for OS X and one 20GB for Win7 (Parallels or VMWare). Both of these will regularly be mirrored to similar partitions on the 1TB drive (SuperDuper?).
The remaining 900GB data partition on the WD disk is backed up using TimeMachine to my QNAP NAS (via iSCSI) when at home. The NAS is automatically backed up to a connected eSATA drive.
In addition to this I will put the internal 500GB disk that came with the MBP in a FW enclosure and bring it with me when traveling. This way I can back up my photos and Lightroom data even while on the road for a couple of weeks (can TimeMachine be used for this too?).
Does it make sense?