![]() ![]() My current frustration with Carbonite is that it seems to be choking on a file, and the number of backed-up files hasn't budged since Monday. I live in an area where earthquakes and wildfires aren't uncommon, and my desire for automatic off-site storage is obvious. One is always at work and the other one at home connected to the iMac. I have two external drives that I rotate on a weekly schedule. The problem with a 6-8 week / six month (!) backup is that something horrifically wrong could take place in the interim.Īs I said, it's not my primary backup. If I go down this road is there a huge benefit to using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner over Time Machine? I also use Time Machine with a 1 TB removable drive, and am considering just swapping out the drives periodically and storing them off-site. I also signed up for the Crashplan Family Plan so now I don't need to worry about my Mother or siblings computers, just told them to leave the computer on over night once or twice a week. If I mess up and need a single file I have a week old drive or Crashplan (which will version like TM). My first backup is and has always been 2 external drives that I rotate on a weekly basis.These are cloned drives (using CCC). ![]() Took almost 6 months to get it all uploaded. For me the online backup is a second line defense so I just let it run and take it's time. The upload time is mostly dependent on your upload bandwidth but you can seed the upload by having them ship a drive to you. I'm using Crashplan and I have close to 1 TB online now. It wasn't a huge amount of data (about 155 GB), but Carbonite didn't recognize the transferred files and began a completely new backup.Īt the rate it's going, this new backup will take between 6 and 8 weeks to upload. I just bought a new iMac and transferred my old files via Migration Assistant. I'm about ready to cancel my Carbonite service due to the incredibly long backup time. If the relatively long time it takes to "seed" the initial backup bothers you, you can elect to use the option to have CrashPlan send you an external drive, but it will cost you. It's simply better, easier to use and less expensive than any alternative that I have looked at, including Carbonite. If you enable automatic SD! backups you can live without TM, but you won't have hourly backups.ģ. However, I find TM to be somewhat buggy (it sometimes turns itself off, so be sure to enable the Finder Menu Bar TM icon). It's only happened to me once in recent memory and that incident got me to start using TM. I am mainly concerned with having access to files that are deleted by mistake. Time Machine In my case I only use Time Machine to backup my Home folder. Then use Migration Assistant to move everything from the external to the new internal.Ģ. If your internal drive ever fails (and it will, sooner or later.) you can run off the external drive until you can get the internal fixed. SuperDuper! Essential for easily creating a bootable clone of your internal drive. ![]() I have two drives on my iMac and Super Duper clones each drive simultaneously each night.ġ. So, I basically can take my iMac environment and boot up on my wires iMac. SuperDuper enables me to boot from my small external that I clone on a nightly basis. Time Machine enables me to go back and grab a file I may have accidentally deleted. In addition to the above I make a second Super Duper Clone Copy and store the drive offsite to protect against fire or theft at my home.īig second!!! I use Time Machine in conjunction with Super Duper on my iMac. You can also "boot up" from it if your Hard Drive has failed. Super Duper makes a "bootable clone copy" of your Hard Drive so that you can make complete restore of your Hard Drive. This can be quite helpful in that you can go backwards to look at and restore an older version of that file. Time Machine makes back ups of all files that have changed while retaining the old versions. Time Machine and Super Duper are two different products for two different purposes. ![]()
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