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<blockquote data-quote="caribiner23" data-source="post: 1647913" data-attributes="member: 9169"><p>Amen to all that ferrarr and macinwin said. </p><p></p><p>My personal experience with Time Machine is checkered: the few times I needed it, it came through as advertised. Over the years, though, I've had issues with backups getting corrupt and having to be rebuilt, etc. which is what drove me to other solutions for a while. I only recently began using it again because I had a spare drive to connect to my Airport Extreme.</p><p></p><p>For true backup, I use <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank">SuperDuper</a> to replicate my rMBP's internal drive to an external, bootable disk. I refresh that image about every other week, so I always have a full image to fall back on in the event of a catastrophe.</p><p></p><p>I keep most of my user documents on <a href="http://www.dropbox.com" target="_blank">Dropbox</a>, so not only are they consistently held in sync in the cloud, they are also accessible via all my internet-connected devices.</p><p></p><p>I also use <a href="http://www.code42.com/crashplan/" target="_blank">CrashPlan</a> to keep a full, offsite copy of everything.</p><p></p><p>This is kind of a belt/suspenders/staplegun/krazy glue approach, but I have witnessed what data loss can mean.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="caribiner23, post: 1647913, member: 9169"] Amen to all that ferrarr and macinwin said. My personal experience with Time Machine is checkered: the few times I needed it, it came through as advertised. Over the years, though, I've had issues with backups getting corrupt and having to be rebuilt, etc. which is what drove me to other solutions for a while. I only recently began using it again because I had a spare drive to connect to my Airport Extreme. For true backup, I use [URL="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html"]SuperDuper[/URL] to replicate my rMBP's internal drive to an external, bootable disk. I refresh that image about every other week, so I always have a full image to fall back on in the event of a catastrophe. I keep most of my user documents on [URL="http://www.dropbox.com"]Dropbox[/URL], so not only are they consistently held in sync in the cloud, they are also accessible via all my internet-connected devices. I also use [URL="http://www.code42.com/crashplan/"]CrashPlan[/URL] to keep a full, offsite copy of everything. This is kind of a belt/suspenders/staplegun/krazy glue approach, but I have witnessed what data loss can mean. Hope this helps! [/QUOTE]
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