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Okay - that is completely made up but since I am backing up all my data and rebuilding my iMac today I thought it would be a good reminder for everyone.
Remember: it's not IF your hard drive is going to fail it's just WHEN. Backup your important files. I use a Time Machine backup and usually test it about once per month to make sure I can get to the backed up files.
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Worse than a HD crash, is computer stolen (which happened to me in the middle of a job). They also took all of my backup tapes and CDs :( Luckily I had the original data from the client so I could at least start over, but I lost so much data and time.
I use flash drive keychain, external HD, DVD archives, and remote storage on dropbox, and svn with github and unfuddle.
BTW, here is a great article on backups with your mac:
http://patrickrhone.com/2010/02/22/back-that-thang-up/
bradparks
Member
I second the DropBox option... I use SVN as well, but by just putting my projects folders in my DropBox folder, it's automatically backed up... and synced to any other computers I like too... this of course puts it securely on a 3rd party (ie DropBox's) servers, but I don't think that's anything to worry about for the awesomeness of the service.... 2Gb for free... You can get it at DropBox.com, or, if you do decide to sign up, if you click this affiliate link, you'll get an extra 250 meg's of storage when you signup (and I will too)
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI3NDkyMjk
There's an iPhone app too, so you can download any files you put in your DropBox straight to your iPhone.... I edit my "todo"s in VIM on my mac, and they happen to be in my DropBox.... Later on, I can look at my ToDo list on the iPhone without having to do anything... very nice!
mrTortex
Member
I had a fire, everything went. I now back up to external HDD's with Time Machine and take the drive to work, bring second home, Time Machine, repeat. Also use 16 gig thumb drives for keeping stuff on me. My Time Machine backups then go onto work's servers which are hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backed up to off-site secure tape.
So, overkill but safe :)
Questor
Member
"Backups, we don't need no stinkin' backups!" (Wish I could remember the name of that movie, but they were talking about guns I think...lol)
Anyways, backups are very important, but more important than backups are making sure that they are restorable...all the backups in the world aren't gonna help you if they don't restore successfully...which is something no one usually checks until they need it (me too, on several occasions).
So I think MrTorex and CJ have the right idea...to which I would just add:
If you cannot conveniently test the restorability of a backup, make sure to at least make different types of backups in different places...IE: TimeMachine to external HDD and dump/copy to CD (or some other combo).
Just my two cents.
Regards,
Q
Dropbox is great but don't rely on it for backups alone, i've turned up to a shared folder to find a client has moved not copied the 600Mb of files to their desktop.
Only made that mistake onc... er twice :(
Grizzly
Member
I've had many hard drives fail on me over the years. In almost all cases, I was able to get the data off of them before total failure. I'm currently using a Time Capsule for my Mac as well as an external hard drive for periodic backups on top of Time Machine. For my non Mac computer, I have a second internal hard drive that I only connect when I want to make backups as well as the external drive (it has two 1TB partitions).
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