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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
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<blockquote data-quote="sfam198" data-source="post: 1388456" data-attributes="member: 204618"><p>At a minimum, a backup should ALWAYS be kept on its own media or at least on a different media from the files you want backed up. Otherwise there would be no point in creating the backup. If the drive contains both your files AND your backup (even though they are on different partitions) fails, you've lost everything.</p><p></p><p>An even better backup is kept in a different (off-site) location, but that is just not practical for home users.</p><p></p><p>My suggestion, if you don't want to keep any files on the internal hard drive, is to use at least 2 external drives. One will be your storage drive for your files, the other will be your backup drive, whatever method you choose. Others have gone into greater detail on the different backup methods in this thread so I won't go into those. Personally, I use Time Machine. I keep all my files (music, video, photos, etc.) on an external anyway, so if my internal hard drive fails it's only an hour or so to reinstall the OS and restore my apps and whatnot from the Time Machine backup. My computer isn't a mission-critical system, and I spend all day at work worrying about keeping those up, so I can't be bothered with all that when I get home. I just let my Mac do its thing automatically with Time Machine instead of worrying about bootable clones and whatnot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sfam198, post: 1388456, member: 204618"] At a minimum, a backup should ALWAYS be kept on its own media or at least on a different media from the files you want backed up. Otherwise there would be no point in creating the backup. If the drive contains both your files AND your backup (even though they are on different partitions) fails, you've lost everything. An even better backup is kept in a different (off-site) location, but that is just not practical for home users. My suggestion, if you don't want to keep any files on the internal hard drive, is to use at least 2 external drives. One will be your storage drive for your files, the other will be your backup drive, whatever method you choose. Others have gone into greater detail on the different backup methods in this thread so I won't go into those. Personally, I use Time Machine. I keep all my files (music, video, photos, etc.) on an external anyway, so if my internal hard drive fails it's only an hour or so to reinstall the OS and restore my apps and whatnot from the Time Machine backup. My computer isn't a mission-critical system, and I spend all day at work worrying about keeping those up, so I can't be bothered with all that when I get home. I just let my Mac do its thing automatically with Time Machine instead of worrying about bootable clones and whatnot. [/QUOTE]
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