[X4U] Back up ideas/suggestions needed....

[Jens Selvig]

Apple's time machine is excellent for your purposes. You still need  
some sort of archival backup of completed projects/files though. The  
very nicest thing about Time Machine is that it pretty much just works  
automatically.

You might think about a program like Retrospect and back up to DVDs.  
The first time through would be painful but after that you will only  
be doing incrementally changed files which means the backup will go  
much more quickly. I'd still do a full back up once in a while maybe  
monthly or quarterly.

As Stan Gould said you probably don't have much real need to backup  
your applications and System files all that often. Once you elimanate  
those files backing up to remote storage, such as Apple's .Mac is also  
workable. I use my .Mac storage for offsite backups and it works very  
well for me.

Jens




On Mar 14, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I am going over my backup plan and have basically decided that my  
> current backup system is no longer adequate and need some insight  
> for a new backup system.

Jens Selvig
...Lost in Montana...