Thanks, I do use SupderDuper for a bootable clone backup, although I didn’t know about the archival business you spoke of. I’ve pretty much decided to get a time capsule for time machine file archiving - it’s easy and no hassle even if there is an initial cash layout. Between SS, time machine, dropbox and the newly discovered accessible file version retrieval process built into most Apple document processing apps like textedit, numbers, pages etc, I’ll be okay. On Nov 25, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Kayaker <sea...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I’m doing something I shouldn’t and am answering the question I think you are > asking rather than the one you did. I’m going to assume you really want a > backup strategy and not necessarily copy the process you are using now. > > Both Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) and Super Duper (SD), offer an archival backup > mode. So, you can set up a nightly task to copy your selected folder, but > rather than deleting the old version if it exists, it will archive the older > version for you. This is a poor man’s time machine since it won’t filter out > the older versions based on a time. You will see all your changes in as ingle > folder. this has the advantage in that it only copies the changes rather than > the entire data set. So this incremental backup will go faster and save on > total space. > > But, I think you can reproduce your existing process in CCC or SD by setting > up seven weekly jobs that each copied the same folder to a day of the week > folder. One of your seven weekly jobs would run on each day of the week. > > Regardless, I always recommend a complete drive clone of your Mac HD by CCC > or SD weekly or monthly as your time allows. > > I consider time machine a archiving strategy more than a back up strategy. I > consider the cloning a real backup. Between the two methods, you usually will > turn out ok in a messy disaster. I have had both my internal drive fail and > my time machine backup fail at the same time and that clone saved me big time. > > Good luck. > —k > > Faith doesn’t give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the > questions. > > On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just as a follow up to my own inquiry, I think that time machine with a >> airport time capsule unit is exactly what I need. I currently have a fairly >> elaborate software setup on the windows side via fusion to do essentially >> what time machine does, only I can only go back 7 days. >> Using a time capsule will give me version control without all the hassle. >> It’ll run me a few hundred dollars, but I think it’ll be worth it. >> >> On Nov 23, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have been using Karen’s power tools Replicator program (a hold over from >>> the windows days) to take daily snapshots of my critical working folders, >>> and now I want to ditch it for a Mac equivalent such as Hazel. >>> Here’s a simple thumbnail of what I want to do. >>> Each day of the week I want to move a certain folder to a daily backup >>> folder >>> example, on monday, move folder x to folder mondayBackup, On tuesday, move >>> folder x to TuesdayBackup etc >>> That’s all! This requires that I can check the system date and move a >>> folder with options for keeping directory structure and other such bells >>> and whistles . Sounds simple enough, but automator confuses the heck out of >>> me and Hazel doesn’t seems to allow for actions based on system day and >>> date. >>> Are there any good apps that will let me do this? >>> >> >> -- >> 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.
