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Time Machine for backup
Dave Collyer, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 1:02 PM on 08.21.10 |
->> Anyone using Timemachine with their Mac Pro?
I have photos stored for easy access in the open internal hard drive slots (2GB each) and backups of those at home as well. I am just thinking it would be so much easier to use time machine to back up those drives rather than lugging the LaCies over to the studio every few months and doing a major transfer. Any thoughts?
Also, What hard drives are you all using for time machine? All together there is roughly 5 TB on my Mac with capacity for 8TB. Thanks for your suggestions. |
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Johnny Vy, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 6:01 PM on 08.22.10 |
| ->> Time Machine is the easiest way I've found to back up data without having to "remember" what you've already transferred over to an external backup. It literally archives your computer's hard drive the way it looks upon backing up. I tend to prefer Western Digital drives as well. I've seen too many LaCie drives die to bother with them. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I also burn DVD's of every shoot so that I have another physical means of backup as well. That means I have at least 3 "locations" for my files: My computer's HD, the external HD, and the DVD that I file away separately. Hope this helps. |
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Dinno Kovic, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 9:05 PM on 08.22.10 |
->> Hi Dave,
I'm not sure if you have seen this but Chase Jarvis, has an excellent blog post and cool video on his Back up work flow. Definitely worth the watch. He addresses TimeMachine in the video as well. Here is the link. http://tinyurl.com/2bjbphh
I hope it helps. |
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Dave Collyer, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 1:30 AM on 08.23.10 |
->> Thanks guys! I think I am confused on time machine though. It only backs up my Mac Hard drive (boot drive) and not the others right? If it did back up all of them I would need a lot of Memory (8TB)! Also, it leaves everything in the studio which exposes me to losing everything in the event of fire or theft. Been thinking about this a lot. Maybe the way I am doing it is not so bad. Hmm..what to do... I like the 3 locations theory, Johnny, and, Dinno, that link is incredible.
Appreciate the help! |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston & Houston | TX | US | Posted: 1:14 AM on 08.24.10 |
->> Dave, I have four drives in my Mac Pro. 2 x 750 GB (Seagate ES.2) in a RAID 1 mirror (to protect against a single drive failure and avoid down time) that is my boot volume, holds all my documents, emails, etc. and my working files. I "ingest" to this array and edit off of it.
I'm using Time Machine to backup this mirror onto an internal 1.5TB Western Digital "green" drive. I can only "Time Machine" back a little over two months at this point due to the large volume of data moving on and off of the source drive. The fourth drive is just used for scratch and a Windows Boot Camp volume and is not backed up by Time Machine.
This setup works just fine. It isn't my primary storage of archive photos and obviously it doesn't protect me from a fire or natural disaster. But I can easily recover an accidentally deleted file and barring a major event should help me avoid downtime from a single failed drive which is my primary goal.
Time Machine will back up all of your internal drives unless you tell it not to using the "Options" button. You are correct, if you wanted it to backup all 8 TB of your internal storage you would need to point it at a RAID array much larger than 8 TB. How much larger depends on how far back you want your "history" to go. |
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James Lee, Photographer
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Woodbridge | VA | USA | Posted: 10:22 AM on 08.24.10 |
->> There are much better experts here on this issue, but I just wanted to add SuperDuper to the mix. I use both Time Machine AND SuperDuper. Time machine for daily backups of my local drives, and SuperDuper to make an external bootable clone of my System Drive which includes important documents, personal images, etc. once a week. Time Machine makes it simple to go back a few hours into my "working files" if I loose something necessary or to "undue" updates that didn't work out so well. The SuperDuper clone gives me a drive I can use to immediately recover from a system failure.
I archive important photos/video jobs to externals and DVDs as completed. If you're worried about drive space and accessibility, I can recommend the Voyager bare drive dock. Bare drives are cheap and you can leave your Voyager dock attached and switch out drives just like popping cassette tapes in/out. |
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Dave Collyer, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 10:23 AM on 08.25.10 |
| ->> Hey James thanks for the info..that voyager bare drive dock looks pretty cool. Wish I wouldn't have just plunked down another $300 for a LaCie Raid! I think that thing is in my future. Do you have any suggestions for the bare drives that you use with it? |
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