I don't know. This seems too complicated. Perhaps I'm not intelligent enough. I subscribe to his file server approach, and have a separate computer (my wife's) that I use to backup my entire Home folder. Everything. But why split your data up and put some of it on DVD's, some of it on a HDD, etc. I know HDD's fail, but what are the chances of both your main AND backup drive failing at the same time? Pretty darn remote, if you ask me. Just put everything on another drive and call it a day. Short of Armageddon, you should be safe.As for applications, I use a separate portable HDD to disk image each new application I, er... buy. That way I can easily reinstall applications quickly and take it with me to help out a friend.So, I appreciate his enthusiasm - but no Digg.
I thought mac's were so stable, with so few viruses that you didnt have to back them up.. So much for those funny commercials. Oh no, 42 gigs of data, soo much to backup. This must be an old article.
You've obviously never had a hard drive die on you. Yours are famous last words.People who use their computers for actual work are tempting fate by not creating a backup plan and sticking to it. Sure, losing your iTunes library wouldn't be a big deal... but what about the thousands of photograps that exist nowhere but on my computer? What about all the code which I've spent hundreds of hours writing?To paraphrase Chuck Palahniuk:Over a long enough timeline, the survival rate for every drive drops to zero.
Yes but does that even matter in this case? If it was someone I knew, and that person deleted some very valuable data, I would have told him/her to not use the hard drive and ship it to me. Or stop using the hard drive and buy a new and wait until you or her visit each other.
Backup 3 does one thing that no other backup utility (as far as I can tell) does: it will allow you to SPAN disks, whether they are CD or DVD. I just burned my 10k song MP3 collection to DVD in April. Took a lot of DVDs!
neutrinoMay 24, 2006
dugg for a really smart iTunes backup idea! I think I'm going to use that now.
fazMay 26, 2006
I don't know. This seems too complicated. Perhaps I'm not intelligent enough. I subscribe to his file server approach, and have a separate computer (my wife's) that I use to backup my entire Home folder. Everything. But why split your data up and put some of it on DVD's, some of it on a HDD, etc. I know HDD's fail, but what are the chances of both your main AND backup drive failing at the same time? Pretty darn remote, if you ask me. Just put everything on another drive and call it a day. Short of Armageddon, you should be safe.As for applications, I use a separate portable HDD to disk image each new application I, er... buy. That way I can easily reinstall applications quickly and take it with me to help out a friend.So, I appreciate his enthusiasm - but no Digg.
samm3May 26, 2006
I thought mac's were so stable, with so few viruses that you didnt have to back them up.. So much for those funny commercials. Oh no, 42 gigs of data, soo much to backup. This must be an old article.
streakMay 26, 2006
For a soft discussion from a year ago of whether DVDs are archival quality, see<a class="user" href="http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120833,00.asp">http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120833,00.asp</a>
rspeedMay 26, 2006
You've obviously never had a hard drive die on you. Yours are famous last words.People who use their computers for actual work are tempting fate by not creating a backup plan and sticking to it. Sure, losing your iTunes library wouldn't be a big deal... but what about the thousands of photograps that exist nowhere but on my computer? What about all the code which I've spent hundreds of hours writing?To paraphrase Chuck Palahniuk:Over a long enough timeline, the survival rate for every drive drops to zero.
stokestackMay 26, 2006
You can't "backup" your data; you back up your data. A backup is what your create when you back something up.
grapetonicMay 26, 2006
Yes but does that even matter in this case? If it was someone I knew, and that person deleted some very valuable data, I would have told him/her to not use the hard drive and ship it to me. Or stop using the hard drive and buy a new and wait until you or her visit each other.
drycountyJun 17, 2006
Backup 3 does one thing that no other backup utility (as far as I can tell) does: it will allow you to SPAN disks, whether they are CD or DVD. I just burned my 10k song MP3 collection to DVD in April. Took a lot of DVDs!