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Old 08-28-2015, 02:30 PM   #1
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Opinions - I see no need for on-line providers, as they could be hacked as easily as any other website. I know they say they're safe, etc., but having my hands on my own backup means a lot to me. I use Time Machine with a 1 TB ($75) on my Mac as a backup. It worked great when I bought a new Mac last summer. All my stuff from the old Mac was put on the new computer and I hit the ground running like nothing ever happened. If was as effortless a process as I could imagine.
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Opinions - I see no need for on-line providers, as they could be hacked as easily as any other website. I know they say they're safe, etc., but having my hands on my own backup means a lot to me. I use Time Machine with a 1 TB ($75) on my Mac as a backup. It worked great when I bought a new Mac last summer. All my stuff from the old Mac was put on the new computer and I hit the ground running like nothing ever happened. If was as effortless a process as I could imagine.
That's why I was asking, the Time Machine is great, but sometimes people need it to be online I suppose.
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Old 08-28-2015, 02:39 PM   #3
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Opinions - I see no need for on-line providers, as they could be hacked as easily as any other website. I know they say they're safe, etc., but having my hands on my own backup means a lot to me. I use Time Machine with a 1 TB ($75) on my Mac as a backup. It worked great when I bought a new Mac last summer. All my stuff from the old Mac was put on the new computer and I hit the ground running like nothing ever happened. If was as effortless a process as I could imagine.
I'm with you, Brother. Not a huge fan of "cloud" storage.

Time Machine is nice. I leave it on and it does incremental backups every hour. I know some folks who use it but only turn it on every few weeks/months and manually run a backup.

The only "drawback in our approach is that if a disaster (fire, earthquake, flood, etc.) hit or a burglary, an in-hand backup is of little use. I am in the process of manually backing up important docs, pictures, music, and movies to one of my external drives and either giving it to a friend or placing it my safe deposit box. Every month or two, I plan on retrieving it and updating as needed.
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I'm with you, Brother. Not a huge fan of "cloud" storage.

Time Machine is nice. I leave it on and it does incremental backups every hour. I know some folks who use it but only turn it on every few weeks/months and manually run a backup.

The only "drawback in our approach is that if a disaster (fire, earthquake, flood, etc.) hit or a burglary, an in-hand backup is of little use. I am in the process of manually backing up important docs, pictures, music, and movies to one of my external drives and either giving it to a friend or placing it my safe deposit box. Every month or two, I plan on retrieving it and updating as needed.
Personal/Windows.

I have a "local" hard back-up, but was thinking more for the "catastrophic" scenario such as fire, burglary or even one of those pesky hurricanes we tend to have around here every once in a while. I'm not so worried about personal stuff that hackers would be interested in as that's pretty slim and is taken care of, but in this digital age, I have a LOT of family pictures that could not be replaced.
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I have a "local" hard back-up, but was thinking more for the "catastrophic" scenario such as fire, burglary or even one of those pesky hurricanes we tend to have around here every once in a while. I'm not so worried about personal stuff that hackers would be interested in as that's pretty slim and is taken care of, but in this digital age, I have a LOT of family pictures that could not be replaced.
Depending on storage requirements, I would go with a thumb drive or external HD. Manually back things up and take it offsite. I'm not a Windows guy anymore so I can't recommend an automated solution.
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Depending on storage requirements, I would go with a thumb drive or external HD. Manually back things up and take it offsite. I'm not a Windows guy anymore so I can't recommend an automated solution.
To be honest with you Peter, I'm starting to think about becoming an abacus kind of guy more and more these days...

Last I looked, I'm in the 500gb range. Like I said, I have an external HD that most stuff is in, it would just be nice to know I wouldn't loose pictures, etc. in between.
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