[DM-MUG] Fwd: Dr. Mac's Guide to Backing Up Your Mac -- The Mac Observer

[Darcy Baston]

I use 4 drives:

In G5, 2 x 160GB SATA:
-Main (daily use, boot volume) (can't encrypt, music production)
-Backup-Main (encryption would be silly considering Main isn't)

External, 2 x 250GB FW:
-Archive (downloads, media, iTunes library) (plan to encrypt)
-Backup-Archive (plan to encrypt)

I have two schedules set for SuperDuper:
1-Copy Main to Backup
2-Copy Archive to Backup-Archive

I leave Backup and Backup-Archive unmounted at all times so Spotlight  
ignores them. SuperDuper mounts and dismounts them wonderfully.

When I need to grow my storage, I can choose to upgrade the internals  
in the G5, or the externals. My next planned upgrade is to use RAID  
to concatenate the two 250GB drives into one 500GB volume, and then  
use those as the backup for a new 500GB single drive. I'm choosing to  
use the RAID combo as the backup, because they'll be slower and noisier.

Those 4 drives hold all my data, including copies of commercial CDs/ 
DVDs in case I damage those. The one thing I'm missing, is offsite  
storage. I also need to not copy files to the Archive drives  
directly, and instead use big disk images that I can encrypt in the  
event the drives are stolen. I don't know if I can get SuperDuper to  
mount encrypted .DMG files automatically though. I may have to script  
and rsync.

So that's my what and my how. Hope it gives ideas. If anyone knows  
how to do what I'm doing better, let me know in case I can simplify?  
Thanks!

Darcy

On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>
> http://www.macobserver.com/tmoguides/backup/
--
might be of interest to many/all...I'm enjoying the blizzard by  
rethinking how i do my backups = though I really rely on and tout  
SuperDuper, I need to think about what I back up and where more than  
how, really.
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