At 6:50 PM -0500 12/27/11, b b wrote:
Thank you Lea.
I am looking at SuperDuper, and ChronoSync.
Carbon copy Cloner is another option. Most of the Mac folks I know
only use either CCC or SD.
However, if you're running Time Machine to an external drive my
understanding is that it won't do any good to bother with putting
your first TM drive away and starting with another, since TM won't be
able to locate data from the first one and will create a bootable
backup on the new drive anyway. Basically it seems to me that your
TM drive needs to be at least 3x the size of your internal drive. By
the time it's full it's time to get the next generation of Mac.
Frankly I am scared to death to move these photos off the computer drive....
I'm not sure why. Can you expand on that?
Hard drives are only moderately reliable, but there are brands, like
Glyph, which come with extremely high recommendations and 3 year
free-recovery warranty. I'd say a 3 year recovery warranty is one of
the best deals around.
Personally, I keep all my master files on an external drive connected
with Firewire 800, still faster than anything but eSATA. So if
you're fussing about speed of access, try to get a drive with eSATA
connectivity. If you're worried about access to your master files
when you're on the road with your computer, get a much larger
internal drive, or get an eSATA drive and carry it with you. If
you're ill at ease with having your files inaccessible because
they're on an external drive and you left it home, you can also
create a mirror of them in, for instance, a small jpg format,
allowing you to carry screen jpgs of every portfolio image with you
while leaving the monster master files at home. It's really simple
to create jpgs of any size you prefer from your master files through
the Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor item in Bridge or by creating an
action in PS to apply to any image.
In any case I would hardly trust my master files to only one backup
method. As I've said here before I have all my files backed up to
DVD both here and remotely, as well as an external drive with master
files at a remote location, as well as a bootable backup on another
external drive also in that remote location.
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