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- MBP 11,3 (15" Retina, Feb 2015), 2.8/4.0 GHz Core i7-4980HQ, 1TB SSD/4-lane PCIe, 16GB RAM, Yosemite
I have an early-2015 MBP with a 1 TB internal SSD. Using Carbon Copy Cloner, my backup strategy has been to clone nightly to a desktop external HD, and then ~once/month swap out a portable HD clone I keep in a bank safe deposit box (so I'm combining local and remote backups).
I'm thinking of adding Time Machine to this, to help me recover a file I might have deleted and want back. What's the best way to do this? Should I add a Time Machine partition to both my internal drive and my desktop backup and have Time Machine back up to both? Or should I just have Time Machine back up to the external, which would allow me to backup a much larger Time Machine folder (I could upgrade to a 2 TB or 3 TB external desktop drive for ~$100)?
And should I also add a Time Machine partition to my portable drives so I can manually copy my Time Machine backup files to them, or is manually copying the Time Machine files problematic? It looks like it's more involved than just dragging the backups.backupdb folder over to the portable drive (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202380), but maybe dragging the folder is all you need to do until such time as you actually want to access Time Machine from the remote drive.
Thanks!
I'm thinking of adding Time Machine to this, to help me recover a file I might have deleted and want back. What's the best way to do this? Should I add a Time Machine partition to both my internal drive and my desktop backup and have Time Machine back up to both? Or should I just have Time Machine back up to the external, which would allow me to backup a much larger Time Machine folder (I could upgrade to a 2 TB or 3 TB external desktop drive for ~$100)?
And should I also add a Time Machine partition to my portable drives so I can manually copy my Time Machine backup files to them, or is manually copying the Time Machine files problematic? It looks like it's more involved than just dragging the backups.backupdb folder over to the portable drive (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202380), but maybe dragging the folder is all you need to do until such time as you actually want to access Time Machine from the remote drive.
Thanks!
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