[X-Newbies] Backup strategy needed

[Anne Keller-Smith]

Hi, Mark -

You'll probably get better advice than this, but I use two 250 gig 
external drives for backup. One stays on the desktop and the other is 
in the safe box at the bank. I swap them every several weeks or so. I'm 
using Retrospect to back up my Documents folder daily, but I also have 
two identical Archives folders on these externals.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2006, at 01:26 AM, Mark Taintor wrote:

> I have a G4/533 running 10.2.8. 1 gig ram.  It has a 40gig primary 
> internal drive, a 13 gig internal drive, and a 160 gig external drive. 
> I'm down to just over 3 gb of free space on the main internal drive 
> and am getting nervous about the lack of free space. I have everything 
> backed up onto the external drive using Superduper.
>
> What I'd like to do is to move my iPhoto and iTunes libraries to the 
> external drive. This would free up about 20 gb and allow me to upgrade 
> to Tiger. My concern is that I wouldn't then have a backup for my 
> music and photos.
>
> Now onto my questions:
> 1. If I partitioned my external drive into several partitions, can one 
> of the partitions serve as backup for another partition? Is that a 
> smart thing to do?
> 2. Would I be better off buying a larger internal drive and moving 
> everything on my current 40 gig drive to something larger internally?
> 3. If I do go with another internal drive, what kind of drive should I 
> be looking for?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.
> Mark
>
> Mark Taintor
> Chanhassen, MN USA
>
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