Recommended archiving and back up strategy

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I went mid-range on the price admittedly to represent a ball park average price, but your average Apple store assistant is going to walk the customer straight over to it's stock drives on the accessories shelf if asked about externals and not point them to cheap tat on the internet but you'll need to buy 2 drives not one and also purchase a cloning & backup app.

Having those 2 bits hanging out of you lovely piece of self-contained designer kit is very cumbersome, potentially costly and somewhat troubling to the uninitiated lifestyle user who bought (expensively) into a smooth, clutter free environment ,which is maybe why Apple points them to Internet Recovery, hides the Time Machine drive in a wireless router/drive combo called Time Capsule and suggests we back up all our media stuff on iCloud.

It's 'horses for courses' I guess..depends on what type of user you are...there is Apple's advice and there is the experienced users' advice on here. All good and the belt and braces clone approach is no doubt the 'BackUps 101 Deluxe'. What chance dual redundant drives in future iMacs and MacBook Pros?
 
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I am saving data to the external hard drive and then back that up with Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner. Would it be to back up applications?
 
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Not exactly sure what you are asking but I will try to answer. Both Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner make a total clone or copy of what ever drive you set it up for. If it is your main system drive that contains OS X, you can make the drive you are cloning to bootable. That means if you hold down the option key when powering your mac on, you can select the clone drive to boot from and it will present you with a totally identical copy of your system drive and you can use everything on it.

I use a combination of Time Machine (using a Time Capsule with a wireless connection) and an external drive for CCC to create a clone of my system drive.

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Would it be to back up applications?

Yes.

It makes a clone of the HD as Lisa Said ie an exact copy or duplicate of that drive.

Ian
 

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