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From: zoara on 23 Mar 2010 13:30 Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-22 13:14:30 +0000, Steve said: > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for an external backup drive? > > I'd > > like something fairly cheap, quiet in operation. > > After looking at some of the reviews online I think I favour the > Western Digital MyBook range. Is it possible to run these connected to > the USB on an Airport Extreme? Yes. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Graham J on 23 Mar 2010 13:40 "zoara" <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:72295775291058156.532230me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net... > Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2010-03-22 13:14:30 +0000, Steve said: >> >> > Does anyone have any recommendations for an external backup drive? >> > I'd >> > like something fairly cheap, quiet in operation. >> >> After looking at some of the reviews online I think I favour the >> Western Digital MyBook range. Is it possible to run these connected to >> the USB on an Airport Extreme? If you want the backup disk I would recommend something with an ethernet connection. That way you can connect it to your network - anywhere that there is a suitable cable - and use it from any computer Do not use a wireless connection anywhere between the computer and the backup disk if you want reasonable performance when backing up. Lacie have a reputation for unreliability. Buffalo NAS disks look nice but fall over at the slightest touch - if running this damages the disk Iomega NAS disks have a much better support bracket so don't normally fall over. They will fail if dropped on the floor while running. Not used WD NAS - so can't comment -- Graham J
From: Steve Hodgson on 29 Mar 2010 14:09
On 2010-03-22 16:39:44 +0000, Elliott Roper said: > Seconded! > TM is fine for undoing little mistakes. SD for always having a bootable > something or a consistent something. Different jobs. > > I do bulk SD schedules for things like music and movie assets that are > too big to do with TM as well as a nightly system disk. I'm a fan of > sparsebundles for all of that. Partitions suck and drives are not all > *that* cheap. > Once a fortnight I eject the TM disk, replace it with one of my > off-site drives and do several SD smart updates to sparsebundles on it > before sending it back on holiday. Thanks All. I went for the Western Digital My Book Studio, which is a 2TB drive but can be run as a RAID 1, i.e. mirrored data. I'm using SuperDuper to create a nightly bootable backup but not via an air disk as these can only be to a disk image I think. I've partitioned the drive into 2, one as the backup and the other for any 'big' files I want to store there, e.g. Mac build files, Aperture vault etc. To get round the pain of ejecting all these drives I'm using an Applescript triggered by the (truly fantastic) Keyboard Maestro and an F12 hotkey. So far it seems to be working well. -- Cheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk |