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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1574073"><p>My backup strategy, for the benefit of the OP as we seem to have gotten a little off the rails <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Currently next to my machine are four external hard drives, all 1TB I bought some time ago. My internal boot drive for my MBP is 500GB.</p><p></p><p>Drive #1 is for Time Machine backups.</p><p>Drive #2 is for "clone" backups made in this case with Carbon Copy Cloner (Super Duper is another good option)</p><p></p><p>Drive #3 is a "media drive" filled with old photo libraries, videos et al.</p><p>Drive #4 is a clone of the media drive.</p><p></p><p>So I have two backups of my boot drive, and one backup of my media drive.</p><p></p><p>I'm eventually planning to up the storage of my boot drive to 750 or possibly 1TB, get a 3TB external and partition it half and half for media and Time Machine, then get one more 3TB for clones of both and retire these 1GB drives. I'm also planning to "back up" my photo library (probably the most "precious" thing I have on my drives) to Flickr over time as an extra cloud backup. My RAW photos I already copy to DVDs for offline storage.</p><p></p><p>The whole thing is a LOT less work than it sounds. Most of it is automatic except for uploading to Flickr and making DVDs of RAW photos for archival purposes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1574073"] My backup strategy, for the benefit of the OP as we seem to have gotten a little off the rails :) Currently next to my machine are four external hard drives, all 1TB I bought some time ago. My internal boot drive for my MBP is 500GB. Drive #1 is for Time Machine backups. Drive #2 is for "clone" backups made in this case with Carbon Copy Cloner (Super Duper is another good option) Drive #3 is a "media drive" filled with old photo libraries, videos et al. Drive #4 is a clone of the media drive. So I have two backups of my boot drive, and one backup of my media drive. I'm eventually planning to up the storage of my boot drive to 750 or possibly 1TB, get a 3TB external and partition it half and half for media and Time Machine, then get one more 3TB for clones of both and retire these 1GB drives. I'm also planning to "back up" my photo library (probably the most "precious" thing I have on my drives) to Flickr over time as an extra cloud backup. My RAW photos I already copy to DVDs for offline storage. The whole thing is a LOT less work than it sounds. Most of it is automatic except for uploading to Flickr and making DVDs of RAW photos for archival purposes. [/QUOTE]
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