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Stinky The Clown

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5. I'll second your endorsement of CC. I paid the $40 to put it on our new iMac

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 11:35 AM

Oct 2012

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Worth every penny.

I still use Time Machine, though.

We use a lot of backup. My MacPro is my main machine. I do a CC to an external drive and an internal drive. I also do a Time Machine to an internal machine. If one drive fails, it can boot to the other and not miss a step. The Time Machine allows me to dial back a file to an earlier version if I somehow hose it.

I also CC my data files to yet another drive here in the office.

Once a week, I CC that local remote drive to a drive connected to my partner's machine in another city. If a volcano were to erupt and swallow us, that drive will still be functional and bootable.

We also use SugarSync to backup and share the project files we're actually working on.

edit to add: We use Time Machine and CC on all our machines. Only my MacPro gets the belt, suspenders, and safety pins of multiple redundant back-up schemes.

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Time Machine backup problems [View all] spooky3 Sep 2012 OP

I was having Time Machine issues, and it turned out that my backup drive Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2012 #1

Thanks. Unfortunately, that's not the case for me. spooky3 Sep 2012 #2

Not sure if this will help anyone, but apparently the problem lies with OS 10.7.5 (recently updated) spooky3 Sep 2012 #3

Stop using Time Machine. sir pball Oct 2012 #4

I'll second your endorsement of CC. I paid the $40 to put it on our new iMac Stinky The Clown Oct 2012 #5

Apple has finally issued an update to 10.7.5 to fix the Time Machine/Spotlight issue. spooky3 Oct 2012 #6

Are you comfortable with the commandline? sir pball Oct 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Oct 2012 #8

You aren't necessarily making multiple copies sir pball Oct 2012 #9