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GGJstudios

macrumors Westmere
May 16, 2008
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Ah I didn't know that. Do you just choose the most important locations for incremental backups?
No, I backup my entire hard drive, then the incremental backups will back up only what has changed on my drive since the last backup.
 

waynep

macrumors 6502
Dec 31, 2009
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I am new to the Mac so I am carrying over what I did with my PC.

1) Time Machine to local USB drive. Will buy Time Capsule later.
2) Mozy.com for data, docs, pics, music. Not system or apps.

This gives me three copies, with one being off site. I have see to many people lose data and I am not eager to join that group. I once had someone bring me their laptop and their USB drive that they used for backup. Both the laptop drive and the USB drive broke the same week. Talk about bad luck. . . . It happens.
 

ECUpirate44

macrumors 603
Mar 22, 2010
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NC
I use Time Machine only because its the most hassel free.
Having a backup that I could boot from would be convenient.
 

GGJstudios

macrumors Westmere
May 16, 2008
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I use Time Machine only because its the most hassel free.
Having a backup that I could boot from would be convenient.
Have you looked closely at CCC for your backup solution? It's really simple and convenient. It doesn't give you the roll back function that Time Machine does (it also doesn't consume disk space like TM), but automatic backups are very simple to set up and you also have a bootable backup.
 

flyfish29

macrumors 68020
Feb 4, 2003
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Have you looked closely at CCC for your backup solution? It's really simple and convenient. It doesn't give you the roll back function that Time Machine does (it also doesn't consume disk space like TM), but automatic backups are very simple to set up and you also have a bootable backup.

I agree with this- either CCC or Super Super (my preference) are great. I personally don't need the roll back function- I don't throw away much and rarely need to restore one file. I like the bootable backup option for sure. So if I had to choose one I would do bootable backup with Super Duper.
 

zenio

macrumors 6502
Feb 2, 2011
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One dedicated backup HD in my new Mac Pro.

One huge NAS.

And one smaller passport to take when I travel to the UK.
 

Gen

macrumors 6502a
Jul 15, 2008
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Time Machine, daily
CCC, monthly

CCC takes longer than Time Machine
 

GGJstudios

macrumors Westmere
May 16, 2008
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4 minutes on my Time Machine :eek:
Does it show how much is being backed up? 30MB vs 1.7GB?
Just backed up about 200GB on time machine and it took a good 2 hours. My incremental backups fly though.
OK, I know that part of the time is hard drive speed and USB/FW400/FW800 throughput, but I'm going to do a new initial backup of 200GB and I'll see how long it takes.

Edit: I just did a 200GB initial backup with CCC and it took just under 10 minutes. In my experience, it's a faster process to do the initial backup, since CCC doesn't need to analyze and compare drive contents with the backup to determine what has changed. That appears to take longer than the actual writing of updated info to the backup drive.
 
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ancient

macrumors newbie
Oct 13, 2010
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United Kingdom
I am new to the Mac so I am carrying over what I did with my PC.

1) Time Machine to local USB drive. Will buy Time Capsule later.
2) Mozy.com for data, docs, pics, music. Not system or apps.

This gives me three copies, with one being off site. I have see to many people lose data and I am not eager to join that group. I once had someone bring me their laptop and their USB drive that they used for backup. Both the laptop drive and the USB drive broke the same week. Talk about bad luck. . . . It happens.

Another newcomer to the Mac here.

I'm using Time machine (on an external 1TB usb drive) for my local backups (with the odd DVD burnt for really critical stuff). However, I also have been trying out Arq for the last few weeks - and it seems really quite good (although I think the user interface probably needs a little work). Having a backup in Amazon S3 seems a sensible "off-site" addition to the local version. 250MB on S3 has so far cost me about $0.06 for the two or three weeks in the first billing period.

However, my time machine backup has already saved my bacon when I needed to restore a VMware VM that had somehow become corrupted: 4 minutes to restore a 8GB image (so far this isn't included in the off-site backup).
 

CopperX

macrumors member
Jun 27, 2006
52
2
Backblaze. The only thing that I'll use for now on.

$5 a month for "set it and forget it" backup? Hell yes.

Plus, all of my computer's files are accesible from anywhere.
 
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