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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1387366"><p>Here's what I do: next to my machine are four external hard drives. They've served different purposes at different times, but here's how they are assigned now:</p><p></p><p>(you can see what machine I have on my stats, I have a 500GB in it currently)</p><p></p><p>External Drive 1 is a 1TB drive used for Time Machine Backups.</p><p>External Drive 2 is a 500GB drive used for a bootable clone</p><p>External Drive 3 is a 1TB drive used for media (videos, music, et al)</p><p>External Drive 4 is a 1TB drive that backs up the media drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner)</p><p></p><p>I amassed these over time as I needed them so the expense wasn't a big deal (three of them are FW, one is USB2, in fact now that I think about it I won the USB2 one in a contest).</p><p></p><p>Some things that are really hard to recreate if lost are also backed up off-site (DVDs of photos, some stuff in iCloud etc). While I do live in a part of the world that is prone to earthquakes, my relative risk of disaster here is low so I'm pretty content with the setup and redundancy on key elements.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1387366"] Here's what I do: next to my machine are four external hard drives. They've served different purposes at different times, but here's how they are assigned now: (you can see what machine I have on my stats, I have a 500GB in it currently) External Drive 1 is a 1TB drive used for Time Machine Backups. External Drive 2 is a 500GB drive used for a bootable clone External Drive 3 is a 1TB drive used for media (videos, music, et al) External Drive 4 is a 1TB drive that backs up the media drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner) I amassed these over time as I needed them so the expense wasn't a big deal (three of them are FW, one is USB2, in fact now that I think about it I won the USB2 one in a contest). Some things that are really hard to recreate if lost are also backed up off-site (DVDs of photos, some stuff in iCloud etc). While I do live in a part of the world that is prone to earthquakes, my relative risk of disaster here is low so I'm pretty content with the setup and redundancy on key elements. [/QUOTE]
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