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Recommended archiving and back up strategy
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<blockquote data-quote="pendlewitch" data-source="post: 1681904" data-attributes="member: 214663"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pendlewitch, post: 1681904, member: 214663"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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