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Ask HN: How do you backup your macOS system?
- ggm 8y agoUsing time machine on auto. It just works. The local copies do flush if disconnected but reduce apparent free space until they flush. I buy a fresh usb3 removable every other year or so. Network drives do work but can be a hassle to reliably mount.
- scarface74 8y agoBackBlaze
- pinewurst 8y agoCarbon Copy Cloner to external USB drive
- lkurusa 8y agoI've used BackBlaze for a long while, it works without issues and saved me a lot of times. A cool feature about BackBlaze is that you can browse your files online, this became extremely useful when I traveled with my iPad and I forgot to take a file. Logging in to BackBlaze and then retrieving the file saved the entire conference week. In addition to this, I also seldom use Time Machine to back up locally, to an external hard drive, just for the sake of completeness. :-)
- CyberFonic 8y agoTimemachine with 4 x USB3 hard drives that I rotate through on a daily basis. I also keep two drives that I keep off-site and rotate on weekly basis. Habit based on corporate tape backup regime of old.
- brianjking 8y agoSuperDuper from ShirtPocket is what I've always used. works really well. BackBlaze would be good for off-site backups too.