Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
My Backup Plan - comments?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 546649" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>With SuperDuper!, you can set a schedule for your backups. It doesn't just automatically run once an hour like I'm hearing Time Machine does. I had it set to back up only 4 times a week. I just don't create the type of documents on my home machine that make it necessary to have a backup of stuff I created an hour ago. One to 2 days past is enough for me. I have a second partition that I keep all my movies and music in. So, if I have a file I'm concerned about in the meantime, I'll put a copy of it over there also or just start a back up manually. I keep a copy of everything I download and install on the system on this second partition also, which makes re-installing any app from the last day or 2 hassle free.</p><p></p><p>Most of the time when mucking about in the system, your goofs become apparent pretty quick. If I find I've screwed something to the point where I see it's going to take longer than a half an hour to fix it, or have to start a new thread for something I messed up or not really sure what it was I did, restoring the internal drive to a day or 2 back is a reboot away.</p><p></p><p>Let me just add, the above works very well for my home system, where my time is mine. It is not what I do for backups on my work system where time is money.</p><p></p><p>But, as to your question, yes, if you allow a back up to occur after mucking about in the system, your mucking is transferred there also. But, I know when I've been messing about, and I'll cancel the next backup until I'm sure it's ok. Then I can still run the backup manually if I don't want to wait for the next scheduled time.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine looks like it would be a great backup tool at work. There, I am creating excel spreadsheets all day. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to go back 10 minutes on that machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 546649, member: 24160"] With SuperDuper!, you can set a schedule for your backups. It doesn't just automatically run once an hour like I'm hearing Time Machine does. I had it set to back up only 4 times a week. I just don't create the type of documents on my home machine that make it necessary to have a backup of stuff I created an hour ago. One to 2 days past is enough for me. I have a second partition that I keep all my movies and music in. So, if I have a file I'm concerned about in the meantime, I'll put a copy of it over there also or just start a back up manually. I keep a copy of everything I download and install on the system on this second partition also, which makes re-installing any app from the last day or 2 hassle free. Most of the time when mucking about in the system, your goofs become apparent pretty quick. If I find I've screwed something to the point where I see it's going to take longer than a half an hour to fix it, or have to start a new thread for something I messed up or not really sure what it was I did, restoring the internal drive to a day or 2 back is a reboot away. Let me just add, the above works very well for my home system, where my time is mine. It is not what I do for backups on my work system where time is money. But, as to your question, yes, if you allow a back up to occur after mucking about in the system, your mucking is transferred there also. But, I know when I've been messing about, and I'll cancel the next backup until I'm sure it's ok. Then I can still run the backup manually if I don't want to wait for the next scheduled time. Time Machine looks like it would be a great backup tool at work. There, I am creating excel spreadsheets all day. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to go back 10 minutes on that machine. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
My Backup Plan - comments?
Top