03-05-2006, 11:09 PM
I've just had to rely on my backup strategy. My Dual 1.8 Rev A blew up, and when I moved the HDs to my new Dual 2.5, one of the WDigitals crashed with clicking disease.
My strategy is to back up HD to HD because of the data volumes involved. I'm making a few modifications, but basically, this is what I'll end up with:
I have three HD for regular use:
1. I have a main HD that is my boot drive. My system is set up with 4 users. iTunes files are in the default place on this drive.
2. I have a media HD that contains my iPhoto files and video files.
3. I have a scratch HD that is a working volume for Final Cut. It also contains disk image backups of my Pismo, my iMac and old Macs.
Here's my backup strategy:
My main boot and media HDs will be mirrored with SuperDuper
My Pismo and iMac are mirrored to disk images on the scratch disk with SuperDuper
So that's a total of 5 HDs.
On top of this, I use ChronoSync to sync a few folders between computers. For example, I sync my web site Dreamweaver folders between the PMac and the Pismo.
My strategy is to back up HD to HD because of the data volumes involved. I'm making a few modifications, but basically, this is what I'll end up with:
I have three HD for regular use:
1. I have a main HD that is my boot drive. My system is set up with 4 users. iTunes files are in the default place on this drive.
2. I have a media HD that contains my iPhoto files and video files.
3. I have a scratch HD that is a working volume for Final Cut. It also contains disk image backups of my Pismo, my iMac and old Macs.
Here's my backup strategy:
My main boot and media HDs will be mirrored with SuperDuper
My Pismo and iMac are mirrored to disk images on the scratch disk with SuperDuper
So that's a total of 5 HDs.
On top of this, I use ChronoSync to sync a few folders between computers. For example, I sync my web site Dreamweaver folders between the PMac and the Pismo.