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I currently have a 1 TB drive that I currently have divided into 2 separate partitions. On one partition I backup using Time Machine and the other I use Super Duper to backup my entire system.
On a second hard drive I back up the system as a sandbox anytime the Snow Leopard software has an update or to test new software to make sure it works properly before I add the changes to the main system.
(I also backup data only to the cloud but that is a last ditch failsafe and an extremely slow and arduous process.)
I want to eventually eliminate the cloud backup because of cost but I want to ensure that I have the most robust backup process that I can reasonable attain.
I have data that I cannot replace thus the question. I seem to remember reading somewhere in the forums that having two backup routines to the same HDD is not good.
I don't have all the answers so I would love to hear what the experts and long time Mac users BEST backup strategy is. I CANNOT lose data so that is the end result desired.
Thank you.
Pat
On a second hard drive I back up the system as a sandbox anytime the Snow Leopard software has an update or to test new software to make sure it works properly before I add the changes to the main system.
(I also backup data only to the cloud but that is a last ditch failsafe and an extremely slow and arduous process.)
I want to eventually eliminate the cloud backup because of cost but I want to ensure that I have the most robust backup process that I can reasonable attain.
I have data that I cannot replace thus the question. I seem to remember reading somewhere in the forums that having two backup routines to the same HDD is not good.
I don't have all the answers so I would love to hear what the experts and long time Mac users BEST backup strategy is. I CANNOT lose data so that is the end result desired.
Thank you.
Pat