Is there a way of keeping track of how many of the 25,000 allotment have been 
used?

From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] 
On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 2:03 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Backup Strategies

I'm a huge fan of offsite backups; if that Time Capsule goes down, or if some 
disaster happens, a cloud-based backup would be completely unaffected. Yes, 
there are many things to consider, and if Dropbox or iCloud isn't your thing, 
perhaps Carbonite or Crashplan could work for you? They both offer pretty heavy 
security.

As to iTunes Match, it is $25 per year and lets you add up to 25,000 songs 
which it will essentially consider as bought. So, even if none of your music is 
from iTunes, once you enable Match, that music will appear across all your 
devices and be stored (sorry, I know) in the cloud as well as locally. This is 
great if you have a low-capacity Macbook, or if you want to access music on 
your iPhone but don't want to keep syncing it with iTunes. With Match, you just 
select the song you want to hear and it plays, streaming over the internet 
connection. You can also choose to download or remove songs from your devices 
as necessary. I encourage you to look it up online for full details, and I know 
some on this list use and love the service.
On Sep 12, 2014, at 2:38 PM, The Believer 
<ancient.ali...@icloud.com<mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>> wrote:


  Perhaps I am old fashioned and want full control of my data. Online storage 
is great in concept but, and isn't there always that 'but'?

  I hope this will not turn into a full blown 'pros vs cons' discussion. There 
are plenty of both. What it comes down to is what one needs and what is 
feasible as far as budgets go. In other words, there is no one ideal solution 
for all.

  Alex, you mention Tunes Match. None of my purchased music is from iTunes. Is 
this still a good path to foillow and is it free?

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On 9/12/2014 11:28 AM, Alex Hall wrote:

The Time Capsule is local, to your house anyway. Data duplication is good, buy 
why not consider local and cloud backups? Or, at least, get iTunes Match to 
save all your music files, then get some extra iCloud storage and keep all your 
documents there? I do this with Dropbox now, and I love knowing that all my 
important files are not only backed up, but accessible from any computer I care 
to use.
On Sep 12, 2014, at 1:53 PM, The Believer 
<ancient.ali...@icloud.com<mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>> wrote:


  Finally took some time to review the responses to my query. I just looked up 
Time Capsule and its intriguing.

  If I understand it correctly, this is a router and storage device that my 
devices can access wirelessky? The 2terabyte model is $299. I only have a 
500gig Iomega so would need more drive anyway. And this sounds just right.

  Perhaps I would get another Iomega 500 (for some reason this brand seems hard 
to find new now on Amazon) and keep data locally as well as on the Time 
Capsule. I am not ready yet to consider iCloud for backups.

  Automatiic backups appeals to me too, for I spend too much time doing it 
manually on the Windows machine.

  Appreciate the answers.

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On 9/11/2014 6:49 AM, Kayaker wrote:

Hello,

Here is a basic strategy with increasing levels of commitment to your time.

1. The Absolute Barest of Barest
Purchase an external drive that matches the capacity of your internal drive and 
use either Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to perform a complete clone of the 
drive, making it a bootable volume. If you do this weekly, you'll never lose 
more than a weeks worth of work.

2. A reasonable Method
Use plan 1 and add a time machine backup. Either a time capsule, or another 
attached drive. If you have a laptop, the time capsule is a nice solution since 
you do not need to physically attach the drive. This gives you archive 
abilities and reduces the potential loss down to an hour's worth of work.

3. A Basic Plan
Use Plan 2 and add a second backup drive to your plan 1 rotation. In other 
words, have two drives that you use for making a clone and use the first drive 
on odd number weeks and the second on even numbered weeks. Keep one of those 
drives in a different physical location. Thus helping you in case of meteor 
strikes or a black hole opening up in your house.

Time machine is fantastic, but it's not enough. I've seen too many time machine 
backups fail when it's been needed after a disaster. That is why I think it is 
critical to have a cloned bootable drive of your main system. What is nice 
about using an app like carbon copy cloner, is that after making the backup, it 
will tell you if there are files that it had trouble reading. This is a great 
indicator of the health of your data.

Best,
--k
Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the 
questions.


On Sep 10, 2014, at 5:46 PM, The Believer 
<ancient.ali...@icloud.com<mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>> wrote:


  Can I get a basic strategy to use for backups? I will use a USB 3.0 500gig 
external drive. After I start doing this, I will get closer to upgrading to 
Mavericks. I created the bootable USB drive for that today.

  I do not plan on cloud backups at least not for a while. Thanks.

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