We also have TimeMachine backups running. ![]() ![]() It handles the waking and sleeping of attached drives extremely well and all in all is a … well it’s a Mac. The Mini also has excellent power management, produces very little heat and is almost silent. Hell … I even use my iPhone to manage the home network, via screen-sharing. Pick one up on eBay for little cash, but make sure it’s post PPC, because the earlier ones only had 10/100 ethernet (as fast as an ‘n’ wifi though! Remember too that gigabit wired on a clean network is as fast/faster than FW800.) The Mini can easily be run headless from any Mac running 10.5 or later, via built-in Screen Sharing. An old Mini is a much better solution for backups than a NAS for Mac users. CCC claims a bug in HFS+ handling (filename and permissions) makes backups over LAN fail, but Chronosync handles it fine. I have a very similar system to Butch, though some time ago, I switched to a wired backup over ethernet to a Mac Mini with connected drives, which lives in an armoured/fire-proof safe in the basement, I had to switch from CCC to Chronosync. I’m thinking about upgrading the bridgeboards in my external drive towers to eSATA when I upgrade to a Thunderbolt capable iMac since LaCie introduced the Thunderbolt eSATA hub last week ($200) … since there doesn’t seem to be readily available Thunderbolt bridgeboards … that should speed up throughput to the towers quite a bit … 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. Time Machine for local backup, and Backblaze for offsite (cloud) backup.
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