Relatively new to the board, switched about a month ago.. Dont think Ill ever switch back!! Almost have everything squared away, just a few questions left...
I bought an 500gig external hard drive and created 3 equal partitions.. 1) Time Machine 2) Music 3) Storage.. What I am currently doing is, I have put all music obviously on the music partition and all pics/vids on the storage partition. I got thinking that if the external drive dies, all music/vids/pics are lost.. nothing is essentially backed up. So, How does everyone organize their important files that needs backed up? Should I put a copy of all music, etc. on my imac hard drive and let time machine back everything up automatically on the time machine partition? Or keep two copies of all backed up material, one on the imac AND the other on their correct external partitions?
Seems kind of a dumb question, but I dont want tons of unneeded copies of everything.. especially when were talking about 50 gigs or so of stuff. Adds up quick!
I bought an 500gig external hard drive and created 3 equal partitions.. 1) Time Machine 2) Music 3) Storage.. What I am currently doing is, I have put all music obviously on the music partition and all pics/vids on the storage partition. I got thinking that if the external drive dies, all music/vids/pics are lost.. nothing is essentially backed up. So, How does everyone organize their important files that needs backed up? Should I put a copy of all music, etc. on my imac hard drive and let time machine back everything up automatically on the time machine partition? Or keep two copies of all backed up material, one on the imac AND the other on their correct external partitions?
Seems kind of a dumb question, but I dont want tons of unneeded copies of everything.. especially when were talking about 50 gigs or so of stuff. Adds up quick!