Upgrade to Lion - backups

[Jeff Reynolds]

bob,

alternate drive is for redundancy if a drive were ever to poop out and I keep one off site or in a firesafe if here as well for the theft/fire issue. 
 
I learned this thru a friend who had a very redundant backup system. only problem was not good about offsite and there was a fire in the office took out everything with fire, heat, smoke, and water damage... another friend had his laptop and the backup drive attached (only one) stolen from his home -- again SOL.

also ive had a couple of drives go by a head coming loose and that pretty much leaves you with nothing to recover...

main drive system is a redundant raid as well. few hundred buck investment over the years gives me a nice safety net and this system has spun along fine now for 5 years w/o any hickups due to the drives. my experience with backup systems has been total murphy's law.

watching a few other folks trying to recover from a data disasters has taught me as they all took huge number of hours (translate that to work hours lost), bucks in data recovery efforts, and im sure a few weeks of their life expectancy...

over the years ive dealt with most kinds of tape and cartridge backup systems as well with clients and companies ive worked with and most have worked but talk about a pain to reconstruct, was rarely easy or fast, hence when drives got cheap enough i moved fast!

cheers

jeff

On May 31, 2012, at 3:33 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Should not need to alternate drives with Time Machine. 
> 
> Bob