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What are downsides to this Backup Strategy?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1267580"><p>The system I use is to have two local external HDs -- one for Time Machine, one for Carbon Copy Cloner (a similar program to SuperDuper).</p><p></p><p>I sometimes (not regularly) "archive" important documents to both DVD disks and cloud storage (I'm already a <a href="http://www.apple.com/mobileme/" target="_blank">MobileMe</a> member so I have room for some of this). The cloud stuff only gets "small" irreplaceable items like bookmark files, keychains, address book, that sort of thing.</p><p></p><p>The TM and CCC backups are automatic, I don't have to do anything. The small "cloud" stuff is auto-backed up by Apple's Backup app (for MM users).</p><p></p><p>If I had business or other important records of that nature on this machine, I'd probably also do a periodic "off-site" backup of stuff that doesn't change much or at all, but at present the only thing I have on my HD that would be "irreplaceable" are my iPhoto and iMovie libraries, and I feel well-covered on that sufficiently for the time being.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1267580"] The system I use is to have two local external HDs -- one for Time Machine, one for Carbon Copy Cloner (a similar program to SuperDuper). I sometimes (not regularly) "archive" important documents to both DVD disks and cloud storage (I'm already a [URL="http://www.apple.com/mobileme/"]MobileMe[/URL] member so I have room for some of this). The cloud stuff only gets "small" irreplaceable items like bookmark files, keychains, address book, that sort of thing. The TM and CCC backups are automatic, I don't have to do anything. The small "cloud" stuff is auto-backed up by Apple's Backup app (for MM users). If I had business or other important records of that nature on this machine, I'd probably also do a periodic "off-site" backup of stuff that doesn't change much or at all, but at present the only thing I have on my HD that would be "irreplaceable" are my iPhoto and iMovie libraries, and I feel well-covered on that sufficiently for the time being. [/QUOTE]
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