And ... what do you do if part of your failure instance includes a lack of network connectivity? No way back from that one. Just saying...
Tim On May 31, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems > like Carbonite, and by the time you pay as much as a 2 tb drive with > enclosure would cost, you could have paid for a 5 year subscription to > Carbonite. 5 years is as much as you can expect a drive that is used for Time > Machine to go. Mine is on the verge of crapping out, so I am considering just > paying for an online backup instead. Trouble is, full backup and restore is s > l o w . The next tier though has a local drive backup as well as the > online backup. > > Bob > > > On May 31, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: > >> bob, >> >> alternate drive is for redundancy if a drive were ever to poop out and I >> keep one off site or in a firesafe if here as well for the theft/fire issue. >> >> I learned this thru a friend who had a very redundant backup system. only >> problem was not good about offsite and there was a fire in the office took >> out everything with fire, heat, smoke, and water damage... another friend >> had his laptop and the backup drive attached (only one) stolen from his home >> -- again SOL. >> >> also ive had a couple of drives go by a head coming loose and that pretty >> much leaves you with nothing to recover... >> >> main drive system is a redundant raid as well. few hundred buck investment >> over the years gives me a nice safety net and this system has spun along >> fine now for 5 years w/o any hickups due to the drives. my experience with >> backup systems has been total murphy's law. >> >> watching a few other folks trying to recover from a data disasters has >> taught me as they all took huge number of hours (translate that to work >> hours lost), bucks in data recovery efforts, and im sure a few weeks of >> their life expectancy... >> >> over the years ive dealt with most kinds of tape and cartridge backup >> systems as well with clients and companies ive worked with and most have >> worked but talk about a pain to reconstruct, was rarely easy or fast, hence >> when drives got cheap enough i moved fast! >> >> cheers >> >> jeff >> >> On May 31, 2012, at 3:33 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: >> >>> Should not need to alternate drives with Time Machine. >>> >>> Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
