Mac backup strategies for the world day of the backup

Thursday is world-wide backup day, when we're celebrating a precautionary measures for loss of data (definitely worth celebrating). The best backup strategies take a layered approach to provide different levels of protection. I'm going to focus on the three layers of protection on a Macintosh computer: online, nearline and offsite backups.

Online backup refers to copies of the files that are directly available. Some examples of online backup or copy files to USB thumbsticks or an external hard drive and cloning a disk with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Online backup is convenient because you do not need any additional software to access the backup files and save time, which would be designed to restore files from another archive. Cloning is especially good for system disks, because you can boot the computer and work with them immediately instead of waiting to reinstall everything or restore files from a backup archive as of time machine.

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Nearline backup are usually saved in the format of the archive is saved to storage that is attached directly to your computer or available on the same local area network (LAN). Nearline backup, you must use additional software to manage copies and provide some additional benefits, such as compression, incremental updates, file versioning, and maybe even a centralized administration and security. The disadvantage of nearline backup is that you can't boot from them if the startup disk is disabled and cannot directly access to the files, if the backup disk to another computer. Time machine is the most known example for Mac users, but other software like Retrospect can be used this way too.

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Offsite backups are simply a copy that is stored in a different physical location from your computer. The purpose of wymontowany backup is protection in case of fire, theft, or some other catastrophic event such as lightning or floods, which would result in the destruction of both the computer and the backup storage next to it. Backups offsite, by nature is physically removed, take to recover and restore and are really only there to disasters. You can rotate the wymontowany physical disks, use the cloud backup services such CrashPlan or as a service as Synchronizerfilesync.

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These different layers can be combined to provide the amount of protection for your needs. Here are three ways that you moderate, casual and hardcore can implement online, nearline and offsite backup for your important files.

Online

Copy of the most critical files on a USB drive. Repeat this process every quarter.

Nearline

Buy an external hard disk and enable time machine.

Offsite

Take the second portable USB with critical files for the work.Get a free Gmail account and email the encrypted disk image (using the Disk Utility program) files to yourself (don't forget the password!).Get free Synchronizer account and copy the files to 2 GB.

Online

Clone a system disk to an external hard disk with SuperDuper! Please update your clone at the beginning of each month.

Nearline

Use the capsule time for your automatic backup. If you have a portable computer, do not underestimate the convenience of having a time machine, simply run while the computer is turned on without having to remember to connect anything.

Offsite

Buy more storage Synchronizer with niszczarceZarejestruj be CrashPlan, probably the best cloud backup service for Mac users

Online

Clone system drive to two different, external hard drives with SuperDuper! Removal of a clone of one site and rotate them every week.

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Offsite

CrashPlanThe Synchronizer in addition to the CrashplanSecond you are really cloned driveIf really hardcore, set up the second disk, time machine and rotate this wymontowany as well. You will need to manually switch the discs in time machine preferences each time you rotate the disks.

Regardless of the level of readiness (or paranoia), is a backup strategy for you. Take some time to this worldwide day backup select one and implement it before there is a reason for regrets putting it longer.

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