What Time Machine leaves behind
April 4, 2008
I mentioned earlier that while I like Time Machine a lot, depending on it as your sole backup is rather fraught with peril.
This post on macosxhints gives another good reason — apparently some applications (including notably, VMWare) silently exclude data files from Time Machine.
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How to back up your Mac – Clone Backup
April 2, 2008
Clone Backups
As I mentioned previously, a good clone backup is your FIRST line of defense — in case of disaster, it’s simple and flexible, and gets you back in business FAST.
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How to backup your Mac – Easily and Securely
April 2, 2008
I used to be a “real men don’t back up, they learn data recovery” kind of guy. After a few trips through the canyon though, data recovery begins to lose it’s appeal.
Over time I’ve gotten a lot more religious about backups, and have came up with four rules that have to be followed before I feel like my stuff is actually secure:
- Backups have to be automatic
- Recovery needs to be simple
- Some stuff needs to be recoverable from older backups
- Important stuff needs to be backed up off-site
