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My backup strategy which so far I am happy with: - on my Macs use Time Machine even on my MBP using a NiftyDrive with a selected set of folders that are importa

by yoda_sl 12y ago

My backup strategy which so far I am happy with: - on my Macs use Time Machine even on my MBP using a NiftyDrive with a selected set of folders that are important since the NiftyDrive is limited (currently I have a 64Gb) - remote with CrashPlan which I got a few years back during a Black Friday sale at a great discounted price (wish they were doing that again) I had a few times to use both to restore some files and in one case my MBP HD that went bad... Through CrashPlan I was able to restore everything (it took almost 12 hours to re download everything) but at the end to my extreme surprise I lost less than 5 min of work since CrashPlan was quite up to date. I do use of course Dropbox but I don't consider it as a backup destination and rather a sync'ing service. I do have for a few months now a FileTransporter from Connected Data and start to use it more and more since I can store up to 1TB and no monthly fee for it, but not yet done the full jump from Dropbox. I will be curious to hear anyone else solution.

alister 12y ago
> on my Macs use Time Machine Time Machine for the Mac is excellent--I use it myself--but I must say that it is not sufficient by itself for the following reasons: (1) Since the Time Machine backup drive is typically online all the time, it is vulnerable to malware that'll encrypt, corrupt, or erase you backups. (An example from the Windows world is CryptoLocker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptolocker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptolocker ). (2) I imagine that most Time Machine users will have the Time Machine drive right next to their Mac. So whatever physical trauma befalls their Mac--fire, theft, electrical overvoltage--is going to affect their Time Machine drive as well. Time Machine users need a real offline backup as well. (I realize that you said that you use also use CrashPlan, a remote backup system, so my comment is not directed at you.)

by yoda_sl 12y ago

alister 12y ago

> on my Macs use Time Machine Time Machine for the Mac is excellent--I use it myself--but I must say that it is not sufficient by itself for the following reasons: (1) Since the Time Machine backup drive is typically online all the time, it is vulnerable to malware that'll encrypt, corrupt, or erase you backups. (An example from the Windows world is CryptoLocker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptolocker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptolocker ). (2) I imagine that most Time Machine users will have the Time Machine drive right next to their Mac. So whatever physical trauma befalls their Mac--fire, theft, electrical overvoltage--is going to affect their Time Machine drive as well. Time Machine users need a real offline backup as well. (I realize that you said that you use also use CrashPlan, a remote backup system, so my comment is not directed at you.)