Saturday, January 14, 2023

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

Carbon Copy Cloner. Not the cheapest or the easiest, but I'm a big fan. The developer has been outstanding over the years maintaining a stable product and providing excellent support.


SuperDuper is the other old school, widely respected backup for Mac. Cheaper and a bit simpler, but when I tried it eons ago it couldn't do something I needed, I don't remember what that was. 


These are traditional backup programs. 

I use time Machine for my system drive, but only because it's super easy, and not for individual file history. For me, it's only a disaster recovery backup. If you really want it to work as designed for individual files, you need a very large backup drive, at least three times the expected primary size. If you have a lot of constantly changing, large files, as I do (video editor), you need a REALLY large drive because versioning wipes out older files too quickly to be of use. For this reason, I don't store large files on my system drive at all and I exclude all other drives from Time Machine.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner for everything else.

Cheers,
                  Tod


On Jan 13, 2023, at 4:05 PM, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@ContactBen.com> wrote:


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OK . . . I officially hate Apple Time Machine. 

It's plugged-in every hour of every day when I'm working. Now, only the second time that I've ever gone in to retrieve a file > > > it's nowhere to be found! 

I've searched a myriad of ways, including file type (.psd) along with criteria such as created after 1/1/23.

What good is it if it doesn't backup stuff?!

Anyone have a recommendation for a more robust alternative?

TIA . . . now, please excuse me while I retire from the computer in order to clean up the mess in my office — from my head exploding . . . . <sigh>

Thanks all!

Cheers,
Benjamin
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