Thank you Tim and all for the answers to my question. I have written before about a printer problem I have been having. After about an hour and a half spent yesterday with Apple Care we still can't fix the problem. They now wan't me to wipe the whole drive and re-install everything. I don't wish to do this until I have a local backup of my drive. I have about 75GB stored on Carbonite. As I only have 50GB provided by my ISP before my speed will be shaped, Carbonite is used just incase my Mac is stolen or the house burns down. So it is just my wife's photos and our music library, documents etc I would want to put back on the Mac. This being the case as I understand all the answers TimeMachine appears to be What I need. Is this correct? Thanks again. Max
On 15 Apr 2014, at 1:41 am, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In addition to what's already been mentioned here, let me add a few comments. > Carbonite only copies your non-system files in contrast to Time Machine > which backs up your entire HD. Don't get me wrong though, I firmly believe > that Carbonite or similar solutions are important and in many cases, they're > all you need since the inception of the Recovery Partition. Cloning has its > advantages as well, especially with respect to having a bootable backup, but, > unless your HD totally dies, the Recovery Partition along with a Time Machine > backup will easily suffice. So, in my opinion, since you already have > Carbonite, and with the Mac OS having a built-in Recovery Partition, add Time > Machine to that and you have a pretty reliable backup solution. That being > said, it's really a case by case or personal needs sort of thing. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 14, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Kayaker <sea...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Time machine and cloning serve two different use cases. It really depends on >> what your needs are. I personally use a time machine drive and then I cycle >> two external drives which I clone weekly. Both are useful for some disaster >> scenarios. Since you already have a remote backup solution, you may want the >> cloning weekly option. That way, upon a failure, you can connect and reboot, >> bulling any changed data down from your cloud backup. >> >> >> As for not being able to boot from USB, that statement is totally false. >> Older macs did have a problem with USB booting, but that hasn't been an >> issue for years. Firewire is a dead standard, all be it, a very nice one. >> >> >> Best, >> --k >> Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the >> questions. >> >> >> On Apr 14, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Agent086b <agent0...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I already backup my Mac to Carbonite. I wish to get a USB drive to have an >>> on-site backup. Is there any reason why I shouldn't use TimeMachine? Or is >>> there a better option? >>> Thanks as always for any advice. >>> Max >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
