Prev: Parallels and Windows 7
Next: New Apple PR Footer
From: John Varela on 30 Jun 2010 22:08
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 17:25 -0400, Paul Goodman wrote:
> I forgot to mention that the computer I am using is a macbook pro,
> running snow leopard. I am just running time machine one time a day,
> right before I go to bed, and disconnecting the drive, rather than
> letting it update every hour. Hourly backups seemed like overkill,
> but
> I probably would have done it if I had a desktop instead of a laptop.

The hourly backups are not kept beyond the next day's first backup.
RTFM.

--
John Varela

From: John Albert on 1 Jul 2010 23:08
AES wrote:
[[But of course with this approach, if you make a mistake
and delete something important on your primary machine
without realizing it and then do a cloning as your "backup",
that data is gone forever from your primary machine _and_
your "backup".]]

Good point.

That's why you maintain at least TWO cloned backups, which
are rotated periodically.

AND -- beyond that, why you also maintain _archives_ of
older files that are no longer accessed daily, but you still
want "to keep around somewhere". These can be copied to a
hard drive, burned to CD/DVD, or perhaps both to "spread the
data amongst more than one media format".

No matter what one does, mistakes still can happen. When
someone puts together the "100%, can never fail, ever!"
backup solution, well, that person's gonna make a killing!

- John
First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 1 2 3 4
Prev: Parallels and Windows 7
Next: New Apple PR Footer