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what is difference between time machine saving and the cloud vs hard drive t1 backup?
what is difference between time machine saving and the cloud vs hard drive t1 backup?
This is very important if privacy is a concern. At the end of the day, internet based services are built around someone else managing and keeping your data. Your information could be halfway around the world on a server run by a company that could do anything (within some legal limits which may not be legal limits that you're comfortable with).There is no legal framework around a cloud and no service level agreements, meaning that when you need your data stored in the cloud, it may or may not be available/reachable.
Secondly, you have no control over who can see/use your data in the cloud.
I don't know the cost for Apple to switch it out, but obviously if you don't replace your hard drive, then the clone doesn't appear to have any advantage (for the new iMac.) unless you plan on running your iMac on an external drive.
Am I missing something here? What's the problem with backing up via time machine using either UBS 3.0 or Thunderbolt?
I recommend using TM and a bootable backup software as these gentlemen have discussed. A bootable backup will allow you to continue to use your computer in case of hdd failure. CCC was a life-saver for me when my internal hdd died.
I also recommend burning all photo, video, and music files to flash drives...or DVD if you have an optical drive of some sort. Considering the convenience, storage capacity and cost, flash drives are a good deal.
MBA11, which is mostly used by my wife, gets weekly TM backups and weekly CCC clone, which I suspect is overkill, but I'm sure those videos of piano playing cats are important
I have:
- Weekly TM backups to a TC;
- Daily CCC clone of both 960GB SSDs to two 1TB external drives;
- Separate weekly clone of iTunes library to another external drive;
- grsync backup of all documents to a couple of 128GB USB sticks - about 3 times a week;
- grsync weekly backup of Mail to 64GB USB stick;
- daily CCC image clones of both SSDs to an offsite 3TB HDD (took a very long time to do the first sparseimage, but quite manageable now - about 10-15min)
- Also grsync does weekly Digital Photographs folder sync between MBP17 and MBA11 and backs up to an offsite drive.
Separate arrangements for when I travel - portable CCC clones etc ...
MBA11, which is mostly used by my wife, gets weekly TM backups and weekly CCC clone, which I suspect is overkill, but I'm sure those videos of piano playing cats are important
Haven't used DVD or BluRay for about three years now as a backup medium.
I have a related question. I use CCC to back up my rather large collection of photographs on a daily basis.
I believe that somewhere in this thread, someone recommended that this back up drive should be bootable. I did not think of this when I set up CCC several years ago. How can I tell whether my back-up disk is bootable and if it is not can I now make it so without having to re-save all my data?