backup softwear

[Doyle Thomas]

I have been using timeline home for a few years and my 3Tb drive is now full of compressed files. what I would like to do is add another hard drive and have the ability to point different folders to different drives. any suggestions?

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I have been using timeline home for a few years and my 3Tb drive is now full of compressed files. what I would like to do is add another hard drive and have the ability to point different folders to different drives. any suggestions?

Sorry, can't help.as a Mac user,I'm addicted to Apple's time machine.It has saved my butt many times.well done Apple.now go and improve the filing system.finding stuff is easier in Windows!

 

[Doyle Thomas]

I took the easy way out and bought a 5Tb drive with everything going there. should be good for a while

 

[L Gebhardt]

I took the easy way out and bought a 5Tb drive with everything going there. should be good for a while

Buy a second one to back it up.

 

[Doyle Thomas]

my c drive contains only applications. all work is saved to another internal drive (Q the Q drive is monitored by timeline for backups to my S drive and also saved as a drive image to my X drive using Arcronis so I think im covered. I used Mozy until they started wanting big $$ then switched to Carbonite where I was creating new work faster that it could keep up. I ran it for more than 60 days and still... also, it would take just as long to restore files, it would be nice to have offsite storage somewhere.

 

[andrewf]

There's a few ways to skin the backup cat. My personal solution is to run a robocopy job every night which backs up my photos on my PC workstation to a network drive. It only backs up changes so is usually pretty quick, even over wifi. It was much better over 1gb ethernet but my GF doesn't like cables around the house.

Anyway, I also have a smaller portable HDD which I do a backup to using another robocopy job every month or so. I try and keep this outside of my house. In case it burns down or something.

The drawback to this method is you have to be vigilant and disciplined with your offsites. Also, robocopy has no pretty interface. But I do this stuff for a living so it's a good option for me.

I know that some NAS devices offer a cloud backup but depending on how much data you've got, that might be more than they're offering and you'll need to fork out more. You could do some NAS replication between two remote sites if you could be bothered. I would be pretty upset to lose my photographs so I can be bothered

 

[StoneNYC]

I use carbon copy cloner for my mac/photo archive backup drives. Literally clones the whole drive every time you plug it in or turn on your computer (however your system works for you) and I have 2 backups (backup of a backup) because you never know.