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I use TineMachine to three separate idéntica disks: one at home, another one of the office, and and a third one at my parents place 1000 km away. Pretty anythin
by jng 6y ago
I use TineMachine to three separate idéntica disks: one at home, another one of the office, and and a third one at my parents place 1000 km away. Pretty anythingproof. I also have three other disks with three identical copies of my old archived stuff, in the same locations. Also all code repos are online (svn, git and hg), and I have most non-code stuff on Dropbox too. Restored entire machine from TimeMachine once when I upgraded the laptop, ideal experience. I’m not happy that Covid made me have the office disks at home now too, but otherwise, I feel pretty safe.
- remote_phone 6y agoIs there a way to test if TimeMachine backups are uncorrupted? I backup using TimeMachine as well but as far as I can tell there is no way to verify a backup. I’m concerned that at some point my backup will get corrupted and I won’t know why. This happened to my iPhone backup to iTunes, luckily I had a iCloud backup.
- saagarjha 6y agoRestore it?
- remote_phone 6y agoWhy on earth would I restore an image back into my MacBook if I don’t know if it’s corrupt?
- saagarjha 6y agoUse another computer or partition, of course.
- fuzxi 6y agoRestore it in a VM.
- remote_phone 6y agoWhy not have functionality to check to see if the backups are readable? Instead of forcing users to spin up a vm which most can’t, and do testing etc. seems like a simple ask. Most credible backup solutions do this.
- MilaM 6y agoIt seems to be possible to check the integrity on the command line. https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/09/how-to-check-the-integrity-of-files-in-a-time-machine-backup/ https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/09/how-to-check-the-integri...
- angrais 6y agoWhat data do you have on your personal machine that warrants such a setup? For me, I keep my laptop clean such that if anything goes wrong then no worries. Photos are on Google Photos, use Dropbox/drive for data.
- jng 6y agoIt's both my personal and my work laptop. Over 20 years of freelancing, contracting, consulting, starting startups... Probably my most visible thing available now would be http://www.viemu.com http://www.viemu.com , although these days I'm most active at http://katoid.com http://katoid.com (too little information there yet, but we're creating some amazing new tech for game analytics).
- aosaigh 6y agoWhat happens if Google or Dropbox lock your account?