How does everyone back up?

[r6girl]

Originally posted by Frohickey
Head turned to the rear
One hand on the steering wheel
Very slowly.

i use carbon copy cloner to clone my drive to my 30 gb ipod. i love having my stuff wherever i go just in case. however, i'm probably going to run out of space eventually, so i'll probably switch to an external firewire drive, or get a larger capacity ipod (whenever more than 40gb comes out). i also use backup with my .mac account. a little paranoid, i guess, though i've never had any problems losing files.

marianne

 

[7on]

I CCC my Home folder to my external 120GB. I don't feel the need to back up any of the system, because technically they're already backedup on the OS cd ;p. Oh, and my apps are in my home folder as well. Except for apple apps, because they need to be in the Application folder to get software update Updates.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by 7on
I CCC my Home folder to my external 120GB. I don't feel the need to back up any of the system, because technically they're already backedup on the OS cd ;p. Oh, and my apps are in my home folder as well. Except for apple apps, because they need to be in the Application folder to get software update Updates.

The reason many of us backup our entire drive is so in a situation that the system does not start up we have another drive to startup from and recover the first drive.

 

[chv400]

Granite Digital

http://www.granitedigital.com/

sells a thing where you but a box and an HD tray where you put in an ATA HD and plug it into your comp like a firewire drive. Then when it fill up you buy another HD and tray and you stick that one into the box. And reapeat the process when the HD fills. If all you do is back up your user each HD should give you a good many backups

 

[mms]

I don't have that many critical files on my computer. Most of the stuff on my hard drive is music and photos (backed up on CD-R's) and records of old projects, which I never look at anyways. Actually I only have those because I'm too lazy to clean up my hard drive. The current project I'm working on is always uploaded to a remote server and on multiple computers, and that's about the only thing that I realy need. Anything else I could live without, and I could restore the system from the install disk.

 

[trashyspaceman]

Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds

Seriously though, I recommend rsync for backing up over some kind of network:

1) Install rsync on your comp and the comp you want to back up on.
2) Run sshd (ssh server) (assuming you're backup comp is a mac, click "Allow remote logins" in the Network section of your System Preferences) on the backup comp.
2) Run Terminal.app on your comp, type
ssh myusername@myBackupComp'sIP
to test if the server is working (if you can login then it works)
3) Run
rsync -CtrlvzP mydirtobackup/ myusername@myBackupComp'sIP:mybackupdir/

And rsync will send the minimum amount of info over the network such that the contents of mydirtobackup/ exist in mybackupdir/

Local HD backups (i.e. firewire drive) are good also, or you might consider having a script running on your main comp that keeps a record or all new/changed files/dirs, which can later be burnt to CD, etc., instead of burning everything.

-m