Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Easy way to recover a file from the emptied Trash, without using Time Machine? Date: 9 Nov 2018 16:56:53 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <2018110819162236801-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <2018110819343545073-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <081120182236572295%nospam@nospam.invalid> <201811082009468910-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <081120182318563430%nospam@nospam.invalid> <2018110821361164749-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <091120180834281559%nospam@nospam.invalid> <2018110908184012894-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> X-Trace: individual.net C2qAbu0Osujr7h1xTX2gJQt+XI2g8DrvswTRaWUZDByT6k6okw Cancel-Lock: sha1:v8HabGjLEvtV1FHd3XFYC1iFcZk= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:43661 On 2018-11-09, Tom Evans wrote: > On 2018-11-09 13:34:28 +0000, nospam said: > >> In article <2018110821361164749-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca>, Tom Evans >> wrote: >> >>> I don't know if I could use a third back-up drive; all four of my Mac's >>> USB ports are being used. >> >> get a usb hub, or disconnect one drive to use another. > > Thanks, Nospam. > > I have a seven-port, powered Anker USB hub. I didn't know that could > be used well for an external drive. In the past, not all devices > worked when I plugged them into a USB hub. Maybe it was because the > hub I used years ago was an older one that wasn't powered. > >> it's best to *not* have backup drives always connected in case >> something goes wrong. > > I guess in that case I'd have to plug the drives in every night before > going to bed (so the back-ups could run still automatcially every > night) and then every morning ejecting the drives' icons in case > something goes wrong during the days. Meh. Personally, I'd just leave the Time Machine drive connected all the time. Time Machine will happily back up to it hourly during the day, saving all revisions of files that change along the way. If the drive is dedicated to only backups and you don't mess with it at all in your daily work (which is how I recommend you treat all backup drives), then I wouldn't worry too much about the drive experiencing corruption simply due to being connected. You can, of course, disconnect and remove a Time Machine backup drive, and Time Machine will keep track of changes that you make in the mean time, and automatically back those changes up the next time you connect it again. But the big drawback is if your hard drive dies or some other problem happens before you connect the drive again, those changes may be lost. And since you have already said you have a second SuperDuper backup, leaving the Time Machine drive connected all the time is a no-brainer, IMHO. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR