Upgrade to Lion - backups

[Bob Sneidar]

OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems like Carbonite, and by the time you pay as much as a 2 tb drive with enclosure would cost, you could have paid for a 5 year subscription to Carbonite. 5 years is as much as you can expect a drive that is used for Time Machine to go. Mine is on the verge of crapping out, so I am considering just paying for an online backup instead. Trouble is, full backup and restore is s  l  o  w   .   The next tier though has a local drive backup as well as the online backup. 

Bob


On May 31, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:

> 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
> 
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