With all those drives, you might want to think about using them for CrashPlan for your relatives. CrashPlan lets you exchange off site back up services with another person. Become "backup buddies" as it were.
One scenario - my friend and I each buy similar disks of similar capacity and attach them to our computers. We've both invested the same amount... Then we designate each others' PCs as our backup target in CrashPlan (which is free). Backups are generated on each of our computers, encrypted locally with keys that we have, and sent to the other person's computer and placed on the backup volumes. If you have less tech-savvy relatives who are often asking you for help in recovering data, setting them up with CrashPlan can be good insurance for you. If if your parent, uncle or aunt have lots of family photos or other heirloom data that you want to make sure doesn't get lost... On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Adam Levin <levi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cool, thanks for the confirmation, Derek. I think it's The Right Way to do > this. :) > > Now my only "problem" is the vast proliferation of small USB drives lying > around -- old 500GB, 750's, and now 1TB. I hate to throw away perfectly > good drives -- gotta find something to do with them. Unfortunately, > "something" usually ends up being yet another backup copy of our family > photos, and really, how many backups do you need? (I know, I know -- "one > more than you have!") > > -Adam > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Derek J. Balling <dr...@megacity.org> > wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> >> >> On 1/30/2015 7:46 AM, Adam Levin wrote: >> > I think this time around, I'm going to partition the new 2TB drive >> > and dedicate one (probably 750GB) partition to Time Machine, >> > leaving the default case-insensitive setting. That way, when it >> > fills up, TM can deal with removing the oldest backups and I don't >> > have to worry about it anymore. The other partition I'll use for >> > storing my other files, and maybe there it doesn't matter if it's >> > case-sensitive so much. Hopefully this will avoid the error in the >> > future. >> >> This! >> >> I found that when I dedicated a disk/volume specifically for TM and >> didn't try to use that drive for anything else, the vast majority of >> my TM issues vanished. >> >> >> - -- >> I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 >> F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at >> http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt >> >> Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: >> https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0 >> Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org >> >> iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUy34tAAoJEGYbOtbYKrvQgDYQAKjXnS1H8TBkes6QH46Nw02d >> acd4GFoLVhYThzHdKRc91enu9GIiA47XvWN02hi9ZagMCB3Iv2dFQPpJRdbIfczc >> jKLaxMXZ9keNQvWJKrSw3CubyAvzY4Q62Z2vboo/HK8ewqIubZvTeQTPP5bUYT2q >> gByLV2t8oEONXWL+K2s2qptLs+oGoaEgQ6SzbhLUiGmM8955GO/vrwq5jXbLtBiN >> DZdjLM6GkGEpatieVwpZWC76qvIyNhKXBiYz/OQXAC7psPsb1R79wYlugncj24dc >> +6xYgBSAQs3uoueFMobl3ibDWSeLcX1ybzP8qNmUeyPoMBquAfsgJm7OhNfnm8Oa >> iNKqaT6Tm+NG6iV5D9bDnjy1l/Bw/WI6zKfwstnjxFV0Rcfxc57BkKaXOvLuOk7w >> Bx9WwedwOAnT4Jbz1FLhWTwNLMnUlzXorhiLXbORx3h5eIv3U9MdnJ4f2OSBe59z >> R2ZWf/qpXU9RMUUCJU7iGoJrts2yxaWPQ+wFDjtWNdHRhOW4IZs0Hf0+CcqXigUN >> pwkw7qD5uBjYaLPOiTKAhkpXuJjr+bpDB9MhgB6eZz/SBgaWQJ1+bw28hnYicBc0 >> kReSQJm7cdusiPSWtVtuM6Ck78511tP9gmMDa2QvZjCzkJQq8uCP5jX7GDWDR5KG >> sbDGAfN173m4Btky0vcV >> =/0v4 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
