You can run CCC as often as you like, I run mine weekly.
A couple of my Passport drives are at least a year old maybe aloser
to two.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 12/26/2016 9:07 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:
In your guy’s opinion what’s the difference between the WD Passports and
Elements drives? I take it, you are reformatting the drives for Mac.
A side question, does Carbin Copy Cloner take snapshots of your Mac every hour?
This seems a little excessive for my needs. I just want a reliable backup of
my hard drive. For a silly example, I was looking for an old ringtone and
found it on my 2013 Time Machine backup.
Thanks,
Traci
On Dec 25, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Scott Granados <scott.grana...@gmail.com> wrote:
I used to burn through Fugitsu and WD drives at a high rate but this was
because we were hammering them in an NNTP server. I was burning a drive per
day at one point although once we switched over to IBM and high end Seagates
things improved. At that time though 100 gigs of data or more was a lot.:)
I had a Spark server 2000 and a bunch of SCSI drives that handled piles and
piles of net news.
On Dec 25, 2016, at 6:33 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
I may have used Seagate in the distant murky past when I built my Windows
desktops. Will research this in the new year.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 12/25/2016 2:51 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
I always used higher end seagate or IBM / Hitachi drives myself. IBM have
definitely treated me well.
On Dec 25, 2016, at 5:46 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Scott,
Any brand in particular that are reliable? I am currently using WD Passport
drives, have 4 now, lost one early this year. Am more redundant nowadays.
For that reason, I use two separate drives for Time Machine and Carbon Copy
Cloner.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 12/25/2016 2:33 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Or go with an SSD drive. SSD doesn’t have the same issues as the old
rotating type and are much much faster.
On Dec 24, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com
<mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
Most consumer hard disk drives are just not meant for long term
reliable use especially if they are subject to changing temperatures
and laptop use. If you spend a little more I think the reliability of
even Seagate and WD drives improves. Generally though folks with
critical information will use a raid system. A raid will combine
multiple separate drives into one virtual drive that increases your
reliability. Also protecting your drive from sudden movement while in
use is essential The Take Control Books have a guide on backups that
you would find useful, and their books are 25% off until I believe
next week.
.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
On Dec 24, 2016, at 2:43 AM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com
<mailto:our4p...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have a few more questions on Time Machine back ups and external
hard drives. In researching for a new external drive, I’m learning
that I’ve been rather lucky that my Seagate has not failed on me.
Apparently, Seagate and WD drives failures are pretty common. Any
recommendations?
Onto Time Machine…
Is there a way to copy individual TM back ups? Say I chose a few
from each year, could I copy and paste those onto a USB stick? For
separate safe keeping?
How about deleting older back ups to make space? I’ve entered Time
Machine, but cannot figure out how to select then delete old backups.
Thanks,
Traci
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