Comments on: Public Service Article: Back Up http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/06/public-service-article-back-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=public-service-article-back-up The Applied Theorist's Point of View Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Charvak Karpe http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/06/public-service-article-back-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Charvak Karpe Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:32:20 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=144#comment-1058 You acknowledge that when your drive fails, you will lose a day of productivity as you restore your drive. Have you considered using a RAID configuration to square the probability of losing the day's productivity? It's not a backup solution because you are still susceptible to viruses or fire/flood/theft, but it is much easier to hot-swap a failed drive and have it rebuild while you keep working than it is to have to take a day off to fix your computers. You acknowledge that when your drive fails, you will lose a day of productivity as you restore your drive. Have you considered using a RAID configuration to square the probability of losing the day’s productivity? It’s not a backup solution because you are still susceptible to viruses or fire/flood/theft, but it is much easier to hot-swap a failed drive and have it rebuild while you keep working than it is to have to take a day off to fix your computers.

]]> By: jmount http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/06/public-service-article-back-up/comment-page-1/#comment-32 jmount Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:23:48 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=144#comment-32 <a href="#comment-30" rel="nofollow">@Kevin </a> Or just define a work-flow using TimeMachine without TimeCapsule (though for multiple machines I like something like TimeCapsule). @Kevin
Or just define a work-flow using TimeMachine without TimeCapsule (though for multiple machines I like something like TimeCapsule).

]]> By: Kevin http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/06/public-service-article-back-up/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Kevin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:34:52 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=144#comment-30 This article was timely, John. I ended up buying that Thermaltake SATA dock to pull the data off two of my old HDDs. If I hadn't seen this post, I'm not sure I'd have known it existed. Now to save my pennies for a Time Capsule... This article was timely, John. I ended up buying that Thermaltake SATA dock to pull the data off two of my old HDDs. If I hadn’t seen this post, I’m not sure I’d have known it existed.

Now to save my pennies for a Time Capsule…

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