![]() I only use a single backup clone for my laptop because any work accomplished on that is moved to the main workstation upon return to the office … and Time Machine is of little use when working outside the office so I don’t use it for the MBP. I store the off-site drives in Weibetech Drive boxes (think old VCR containers fitted to 3.5” drives) and place them in a padded Pelican case for easy transport. Why do I do both TM and cloned backups? … you can boot up a workstation from a cloned backup drive and continue working in a pinch … not so much with TMĪll my image files reside on two four-bay trayless external FW800 towers … each have four 2TB drives … the first tower is working files, the second tower is the first backup, then I also keep four drives off-site that are backed up weekly, or after a large job, whichever comes first … again by using the “when mounted” backup preference in CCC … Then, nightly I perform a scheduled backup using Carbon Copy Cloner … and another drive kept off site is updated weekly with an auto setting in CCC that it backs up automatically every time the drive is attached to the workstation … both of the latter drives are connected via a drive dock from OWC (combo USB/ FW800/eSATA dock) I use Time Machine (saved to an external FW800 drive) on my main work station with an hourly update schedule. ![]() Honestly it’s not necessary, I just do it because I can. Oh I do very rarely update my Vaults, which since I’m not managed that’s only updating the metadata. I do have a 10Mbit uplink, but still, even with slower it does work just fine. And even after a big shoot, it only will take a couple of days to get that backed up as well. Yes it took ages to get my main system backed up, but I now have something like 4 or 5 TB of data in the cloud. So they backup pretty much constantly.ĪLL computers also backup to Backblaze. This is my local, manual backup.Īll other computers in the house back up on Time Machine to a Time Capsule, which is wireless. My main computer, with several TB of online storage, is backed up by Time Machine to a 4TB RAID that I only turn on once or twice a week (or after a big photo import) because it’s noisy and sucks power. There are free alternatives, but I've found it to be fast, reliable, and extremely flexible for all types of sync/backup operations.Time Machine for local backup, and Backblaze for offsite (cloud) backup. I don't automate the backup process for my movies, but if you want to I highly recommend GoodSync. Takes 4-6 hours, depending on the size of the drive. When I've had to replace a drive, I just let the copy run overnight. ![]() I store my ripped Blu-rays in the original quality (using MakeMKV), so the files range from 20+GB to 40+GB. I simply tossed them and copied the files over from the matching drive to the replacement. ![]() I've only had two drive failures in eight years, both WD MyBooks. They don't do encryption unless you set them that way, and BB runs sales pretty often on the 8TB models. Recently I've been buying Best Buy WDeasystore drives, which someone figured out have WD Red NAS drives inside. I bought Seagate drives for a couple of years after they solved their QC problems. And the enclosure USB interface is almost always the cause of the failure. I stopped buying them once I read that the drive enclosure interface automatically encrypts the files, and so if the enclosure goes bad you can't put the drive in another enclosure. I have quite a few WD MyBook drives, mostly because Staples used to run sales on them that made them incredibly affordable. I've always bought my external drives in pairs, one for the movies and one for the backup.
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