![]() ![]() Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac Fourth Edition by Joe Kissell $14.99 This DRM-free ebook has everything one needs to know about the subject. Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac: The Online Appendixes Info and links about Mac backup software, online syncing/backup services and hardware. ![]() Here are two resources that may be of interest to you: (BTW, there is a good discussion about Backblaze in the comments at the link.) These days I still clone my internal boot drive with SuperDuper but I do that to have a reliable local data restoration source. I have come to agree with Howard Oakley that for various reasons relying on a bootable clone is a questionable practice for those of use running Intel Macs with T2 chips and Apple Silicon. (You can upgrade an existing account at any time with the cost prorated until the next annual account billing.) The cost works out to $7.80/month billed annually. ![]() That provides me enough oops leeway in case I need to retrieve data. Personally, I do not need to save everything forever, so I pay less for the one-year data retention option. To obtain the same lifetime retention of edited and deleted files as Time Machine you must pay extra for it. Time Machine is a terrible space hog while other programs that can do versioned backups take advantage of modern space and time-saving coding features that Time Machine lacks.īackblaze is essentially an online Time Machine backup and that's one reason I use it. The one time I relied on it to perform a MacOS restore it failed miserable, which cost me a lot of time to fix. I am a contrarian in that I am not a fan of Time Machine for various reasons. You can do a free trial for 30 days and see how you feel about it. The closest thing to it is arguably Arq, which has even more features for doing local and Cloud backups. The CrashPlan home software was capable of much more than just managing Cloud backups. During that time I also tried out Backblaze. I stuck with the business flavor for a year or so after the home plan was trashed. I also used CrashPlan for many years on my Macs. Figure I used Time Machine to do backups of system and then third party to do my photos to separate drive Was also looking at a program called Arq. Coming from windows used crash plan and aomei. May try the chronosynch express as don’t need all the features of chronsynch. That's one reason I always have a TM backup, since after a crash and having to reinstall a system it's easy to migrate the last TM backup to that newly installed system. Take into account how easy it is to recover or restore the data. But some cloning programs can also do versioned backups (sort of like several different clones over time) that are good backups, or make say archives of things like raw images that usually don't change over time. A literal clone isn't really a backup, since it's just one snapshot of data. Note that backup software often has several different types of backup it can do. I do not do clones since I have a second computer that serves that purpose (the purpose being to have a bootable system to use if the other one goes down). I also back up to the cloud using Backblaze.Īnd I back up certain select data using Chronosync. ![]() Backed up to two alternate external hard drives. Have t done a back up yet as only a few programs I’ve downloaded so far. Have 512GB mini pro and 2 Samsung external drives. Do you use Time Machine, third party app or both. ![]()
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