Comments on: Quick Tip: Backup Checkup http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:43:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Solomon http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390833 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:36:39 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390833 That is why we at SOS Online Backup, send backup reports for each and every backup. Having said that testing your backups is a great idea. Our customers love the notification, with the number of files backed up on each backup.

]]> By: Danny http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390832 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:26:34 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390832 Excellent review Dave, I thought I’d check how my time machine back up are doing after reading your article, TM has been backing up my mac for 2 years now and occupies 40% of my hard drive and I use another back up solution to back up my media which takes the total to 98%. Does anyone know what happens once it reaches 100%?

]]> By: Tuttle http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390831 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:54:43 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390831 Mirrored drives, time machine, BackupPC to offsite.

Belt, suspenders and pants stapled to my body.

]]> By: Manuel http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390830 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:31:00 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390830 I wouldn’t solely rely on Time Machine. I do Time Machine, Super Duper (bootable drive) and Amazon S3 for critical files. This covers local loss, hard drive failure and offsite availability.

]]> By: Rees Maxwell http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390829 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:33:13 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390829 I use “TimeMachineEditor” to create custom backup schedules for Time Machine, and in case my house burns down, I also use an off-site storage service: BackBlaze.com. My mom’s house almost burned down (fire got very close to her house), and the next day I started looking for a good off-site service. They’re very responsive to support questions (sent in some questions before I bought asking how they could be so cheap to use and cheap to restore, and got a response from the CTO!). They’re only $5 a month for unlimited backup (well, they don’t backup your apps or system files, but do backup all data files, including music, videos, etc. Right now they’ve got 361GB of my data, and if I ever need a few files I can download them… or if I need it all, they’ll copy it to a hard drive and mail it to me for just the cost of the drive itself. These are good folks, so if you’re only relying on local backup storage…check out BackBlaze. (No, don’t work for them. Just really love having cheap & reliable backup storage off-site … just in case.)

]]> By: Brian Nyguen http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390828 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:37:34 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390828 Thats a really good article on backing up! I think i read something similar about apple iPhone back up at http://www.uprighttechs.com

]]> By: Paul Applegate http://gigaom.com/2010/09/10/quick-tip-backup-checkup/#comment-390827 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:52:38 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=51162#comment-390827 I think the default time limit is 10 days. You will get a dialog box saying that time machine has not run in 10 days. But I agree it should be less than 10 days if a backup fails to run. Perhaps this value can be changed, I’m not sure.

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