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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1646706" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>I wholeheartedly agree with your decision to back up. Had the damage been worse you may have lost everything.</p><p></p><p>As for backing up, in my mind you have two options and to decide which is best for you you need to understand the differences.</p><p>Time Machine (TM) does constant incremental backups of your entire HD including the OS. But it is not formatted like a "normal" external HD. The only way you can restore or delete files is through the Time Machine interface, ie no drag and drop and you cannot boot from it.</p><p></p><p>A cloning app like SuperDuper (SD), Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) or ChronoSync (CS) will enable you to have an accessible duplicate of your HD and OS that you can boot from, either your own laptop in case of a crash or another compatible laptop in case of loss.</p><p></p><p>Personally I have both. I partitioned a 1Tb USB HD into two volumes of 500Gb each. An easy exercise to do with the native Disk Utility. One half has CCC and the other TM.</p><p>You can also avail yourself of several "Cloud" based backup systems for insurance but remember the time required to restore from a cloud based backup could be huge unless you have a lightening fast connection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1646706, member: 204485"] I wholeheartedly agree with your decision to back up. Had the damage been worse you may have lost everything. As for backing up, in my mind you have two options and to decide which is best for you you need to understand the differences. Time Machine (TM) does constant incremental backups of your entire HD including the OS. But it is not formatted like a "normal" external HD. The only way you can restore or delete files is through the Time Machine interface, ie no drag and drop and you cannot boot from it. A cloning app like SuperDuper (SD), Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) or ChronoSync (CS) will enable you to have an accessible duplicate of your HD and OS that you can boot from, either your own laptop in case of a crash or another compatible laptop in case of loss. Personally I have both. I partitioned a 1Tb USB HD into two volumes of 500Gb each. An easy exercise to do with the native Disk Utility. One half has CCC and the other TM. You can also avail yourself of several "Cloud" based backup systems for insurance but remember the time required to restore from a cloud based backup could be huge unless you have a lightening fast connection. [/QUOTE]
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