![]() They can also be a little troublesome to set up (though they have gotten easier). Many of these systems will also let you have multiple large hard drives in order to either have older copies of files and have built-in backups of the drives inside to prevent losing your entire backup should one drive go bad.įor people who might go out of town for business often, having a network drive might be more trouble, whether it’s lack of Internet connection, security, or just getting connected over another Internet connection. might prefer this for the sake of having a few extra ports. ![]() People who plug in a lot of things, such of photographers, video makers, etc. For example, a network attached storage system, commonly called NAS, is good for people who need a lot of space and don’t want to always be physically connected to their machine, or for people who are limited in the number of ports for their Mac. The next thing to consider is how portable you want your backup medium to be, especially considering how mobile your Mac is. If your Mac has a 500-gigabyte internal hard drive, you’ll want to look at a drive that has about a terabyte (1024 gigs) of storage space. I’[ll keep my copy of SD until it won’t launch anymore…but I haven’t actually used it in probably 5 years so upgrading to the Apple Silicon license isn’t worth it…although others mileage certainly can and should vary.What kind of medium should you use for backup? First, make sure whatever medium you use, the storage space is at least double the size of your Mac’s hard drive. That’s when I started looking for something else…started with Sync and tried Chronosync and then found CCCs which just works. His statement was that he was only interested in duplicating entire volumes and had zero interest in expanding the capabilities beyond that. SD had it’s day…but its feature set has not grown or changed much with passing of time…and the author and I had a conversation about making it easier to clone folders some years back. And for cloning folders…CCC is far, far easier to configure and maintain. ![]() In addition…I’ve found that for my purposes…backing up sets of folders from one place to another place is a far more flexible backup routine…in addition to TM of course as well as BackBlaze for offsite. I do maintain bootable backup drives…but they get updated by booting from them and updating in System Prefs instead so all that signing, crypto hashing and all just happens. Clone the hidden data volume instead since the whole read only sealed, signed, and delivered boot volume isn’t really needed. Both will…sort of…produce bootable clones but both rely on the Apple ASR utility which Apple has stated will be deprecated.Ĭloning the data partition on current APFS bootable drives is a lot easier…and I for one have given up on making a bootable clone. I own it as well as CCC…and frankly CCC is much more full featured. #1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principleĭecent product for what it does…but in these days of it being really hard to actually produce a bootable clone cloning a whole drive isn’t as important as it used to be.#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.
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