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Back-up: Time Machine versus Carbon Copy Cloner
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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1841816" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>@ <strong>OP</strong> - many of us here use both Time Machine (TM) and cloning software (CCC - Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) - agree w/ <strong>Ian</strong> and do both TM & CCC backups to separate external drives; in fact, I do duplicate EHD backups, so four drives per computer - in addition, I like to do an additional backup of 'personal' files - so, using small capacity SSDs on my 3 Mac computers and an app called <em>Sync Folders Pro</em> (inexpensive in the App store) - pic below showing which folders on my MBPro get this x-BU (same on my other laptop & iMac). Now what I don't do which is often recommended is keep some BUs 'off site' in case of a major disaster (such as your house burning down) and/or do cloud backups (bunch of usually paid options). Dave</p><p></p><p>P.S. if you want to use flash SS memory, avoid the inexpensive thumb drives and step up a notch or two to better external SSDs; their prices are dropping and the smaller capacity ones have become much more reasonable to purchase.</p><p></p><p>P.S.S. over the past 7 years or so, I've had 2-3 external spinners and 1 SSD fail on me, hence my reason for duplication/redundancy.</p><p></p><p>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]31034[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1841816, member: 234411"] @ [B]OP[/B] - many of us here use both Time Machine (TM) and cloning software (CCC - Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) - agree w/ [B]Ian[/B] and do both TM & CCC backups to separate external drives; in fact, I do duplicate EHD backups, so four drives per computer - in addition, I like to do an additional backup of 'personal' files - so, using small capacity SSDs on my 3 Mac computers and an app called [I]Sync Folders Pro[/I] (inexpensive in the App store) - pic below showing which folders on my MBPro get this x-BU (same on my other laptop & iMac). Now what I don't do which is often recommended is keep some BUs 'off site' in case of a major disaster (such as your house burning down) and/or do cloud backups (bunch of usually paid options). Dave P.S. if you want to use flash SS memory, avoid the inexpensive thumb drives and step up a notch or two to better external SSDs; their prices are dropping and the smaller capacity ones have become much more reasonable to purchase. P.S.S. over the past 7 years or so, I've had 2-3 external spinners and 1 SSD fail on me, hence my reason for duplication/redundancy. . [ATTACH=FULL]31034[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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