R C-R Texas, USA
The alternatives you have been mentioning are time consuming, may require sorting through a multitude of windows, & extra steps just to create the backups in the first place.
What "time consuming" option is that? I have say 100 PDF files created in the past 2 days in a folder marked "11-10-2013 PDF".
Every day I drag that folder to an external HD. When I backup that folder full of PDF (or anything for that matter), it takes one swiping gesture to the external HD on the desktop. Is that the "hard/ complicated" part you refer to?
--Do you have any experience actually using anything other than TM? You make blanket statements about extremely easy things as being "hard, complex, convoluted" when they arent at all.
R C-R Texas, USA
multitude of windows, & extra steps
Completely untrue, I drag active files containing data to a connected HD......no windows and only 1 step.
at chosen intervals, I copy that full or filling HD to another HD for data redundancy.........no windows and only 1 step.
R C-R Texas, USA
"professionals" do, please remember that this conversation includes input from many of them. They can speak for themselves. It is presumptuous of you to try to do that for them
I dont know any professional data archivists on this board,....I speak about professional books written on data archiving and what large multinational corporations or large businesses do. (however some of them are still using 3M tape backups for data for several reasons......but consumers cant afford such things).
R C-R Texas, USA
Nonsense. Nothing is faster than the internal bus, not even Thunderbolt.
This is a statement you completely didnt understand.....I was speaking of a HD clone, when installed, will boot FASTER than the good working original in most cases. This is proven fact, due to how CCC and SuperDuper defrag in the clone process. You can google this fact if you deny it, ....however you didnt understand what I was saying at all. The code author of SuperDuper himself has a PDF about this "discovery" and his investigation into it as well on his site.
I wasnt attempting nor alluding to anything being faster than an internal vs. external bus.
R C-R Texas, USA
"You cant boot from time machine" statement is & has been technically inaccurate for at least a year & is clearly misleading in a topic about OS 10.9 Mavericks. It is true that you can only boot into its copy of Recovery HD
I was very clear on it, ..however it is possible Etre got connotation and denotation of the word "BOOT" confused.
I stated you cannot "boot to desktop from a TM". Fact.
A: recovery (from TM to a corrupted HD)
B: boot-to-Recovery (for a TM backup to begin to write to a newly installed HD)
C: FULL-Boot from a HD clone
Only C is a genuine "boot"
Possibly it should be said that you "can ENTER into recovery via time machine", rather than use the word boot, as its long time connotation is "booting to full working condition".
R C-R Texas, USA
We are not all going to agree about the best backup solution, nor should we
A backup is by definition insecure, however its DENOTATION has merged with a CONNOTATION of "archives"
You must agree to several rock hard facts of archive solutions, otherwise you contradict the premise OF archives / backups.
1. redundancy is the ONLY safety
2. All professional and multinationals AGREE that in addition to redundancy, multi-platform archives are second tier security (optical, HD, archival optical, huge tape backups [consumers cant afford this], and lastly online archives)
3. Archives must be separate in both storage platform, but lastly in PLACE, both locally for Active data, but in fireboxes, and safes for static data,......and BOTH active and static data ONLINE & offsite on multiple server locations.
*~You cannot logically deny 1, 2, 3. If you do you've only contradicted the core premise of data protection.