My $.02 on Time Machine.
I bought a 2TB time machine about 4? years ago and set up two MB Pro's
with it. Other than a little irritation from accidental reboots on the
device (connected to the same power strip as my flakey motorola internet
service, yielding a reboot via powerstrip toggle sometimes), I've had
nothing but good look.
I've only had one occasion to do a full restore in an emergency and it
worked like a charm.. I *have* used it to migrate between MB Pros and an
iMac about 5 or 6 times in the same period. That has worked flawlessly
as well.
It might be prudent to back that up somewhere offsite, but I'm just not
that prudent and now am spoiled to my regular "backup" and potential
"restores" being almost entirely invisible to me. I can't tell from the
discussion on the list how "transparent" the true cloud services are,
unfortunately I'm pretty sure my totally lame internet would make
*restore* a long and painful experience.
- Steve
I have one data point. One of our Macs near Seattle had a drive fail,
so I had an employee take it to an Apple store. The 'genius' was very
happy when he saw the Time Machine, and, I think, nothing was lost.
About the depth of cloud backups: I now use Arq on the Mac. The
backups are in Amazon's S3, and the frequency is settable: I have one
done every hour. You set a limit on how much space you want to use --
just as a Time Machine has a fixed size -- and once you hit that
limit, it will overwrite the oldest versions as necessary. Also the
paid version of DropBox keeps at least some history. For saving a Time
Machine offsite, Amazons Glacier storage is one cent a gigabyte per
month, so your 150 gigabytes would be $18 per year. They really hit
you with transfer charges if you try to read a large amount in a short
time, but since that presumably happens only when your Mac and your
time machine have both been roasted in a fire, you probably will be
happy to pay them. Unfortunately 150 gigs is not enough for most time
machines.
--Barry
On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:42 AM, "Robert J. Cordingley"
<rob...@cirrillian.com <mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com>> wrote:
So has anyone successfully restored an entire system from the Cloud
(or a Time Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any
statistics on success rate?
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