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Back Up: Time Machine vs. User folder on separate hard drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="theonegod" data-source="post: 740228" data-attributes="member: 22259"><p>Putting your user folder or your My Documents on an external drive is NOT a backup as it is still residing in only one place. There is no reason to expect that your external drive is any less likely to fail then your internal drive. A backup has data in more then one location. Time machine is great for this. </p><p></p><p>personally I use 2 different backup meathods. I have 2 external firewire drives. 1 is setup as a time machine drive for me and serves the purpose of allowing me to restore a file or program to a specific time and day. The other firewire drive is a drive I use for Superduper! backups. This program makes an exact copy of your internal hard drive to your external and even makes it bootable. This meathod is much better for a full system restore then a time machin drive is due to the speed of recovery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="theonegod, post: 740228, member: 22259"] Putting your user folder or your My Documents on an external drive is NOT a backup as it is still residing in only one place. There is no reason to expect that your external drive is any less likely to fail then your internal drive. A backup has data in more then one location. Time machine is great for this. personally I use 2 different backup meathods. I have 2 external firewire drives. 1 is setup as a time machine drive for me and serves the purpose of allowing me to restore a file or program to a specific time and day. The other firewire drive is a drive I use for Superduper! backups. This program makes an exact copy of your internal hard drive to your external and even makes it bootable. This meathod is much better for a full system restore then a time machin drive is due to the speed of recovery. [/QUOTE]
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