AceNeerav

Q: How do Pros manage backup?

This week a horrible thing happened. Ad mentioned in my other post, i lost my time machine drive to some form of hardware/software corruption. And i did the huge mistake of cut-pasting my archived iPhoto library onto the same media! Today i realized that i didn't have a single copy left of the 10 year of photographs!!!

 

Infact, before i realized that my iPhoto library was on it, i even made an attempt to erase the partition! Luckily, it failed. I am glad that i wasn't able to erase the drive.

 

Now i have deployed 'data rescue 3' for the job of recovering my drive.

 

But i learnt an important lesson the hard way, to not depend on one physical media for backups! I had also almost ordered the LaCie cloud box 4tb nas storage when i learnt from the internet that its a single hdd inside. That simply means i was about to repeat the disaster on a much bigger level a few years down the lane.

 

So can someone tell me how Pros manage backup? What form of media they use and what configuration?

 

Should i order to nas storages and make one clone the other? I have absolutely no knowledge how ill manage that with a single lan port on my airport express!

 

Or can u link me to a good read online? Something that clears my mind about this subject?

 

How do u manage backup?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 13 inch, C2D 2.4 Ghz, Mid 2010

Posted on Oct 11, 2013 3:31 AM

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  • by ssls6,

    ssls6 ssls6 Oct 20, 2013 10:34 AM in response to AceNeerav
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    Oct 20, 2013 10:34 AM in response to AceNeerav

    I can tell you how I manage backups.  To start with, there are two types of problems I try to prevent.  One is a hardware failure and the other a software failure.  Software problems are from my experience the hardest to deal with and occur the most often.  Let's say for some reason you lost a file or a file is corrupt or a program or you installed something that messed with other things....

     

    Raid helps with hardware issues but does nothing for software issues so I don't use it (unless Raid 0 for speed). What I do is run Time machine on one drive, have two external clones ping-ponging 2x per week.  Have two external clones ping-ponging 2x per month that get stored remotely.  I use CCC (great program) for the clones.

     

    My strategy works pretty well and only once did I need to recover something from the remote clones.  You'd think that would never happen but Time machine became corrupt and a missing folder had already migrated to the on-site clones.  Only my remote clones had a copy and then only 1 of the 2.

     

    My system is not perfect but it is redundant.  With TM I can go back and look for old files and with my clones I can go back 30 days in case of emergency.  Hardware loss is very very easy to deal with.  The downside of my strategy is the 30 day limit on disasters and the fact that I must bring home a remote drive every 2 weeks and then take it back to my office.

     

    Dual TM drives would make my system better but I can live with the 30 day disaster limit.

     

    ...disclaimer...I created a media server via apple TV(s) for my family.  It took so much time to create (months) that I decided to take backup very seriously.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Oct 20, 2013 10:44 AM in response to ssls6
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    Oct 20, 2013 10:44 AM in response to ssls6

    have two external clones ping-ponging 2x per week........ I decided to take backup very seriously.

     

     

    Great advice, where do you hang the gold star at?

     

     

     

     

    C.A.R.D. (compartmentalized autonomous redundancy of data)

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