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Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5)

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On 2013-10-14 15:44:00 +0000, Jamie Kahn Genet said:

> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

>> Ah, I thought CrashPlan can do offline local backups too. Nevermind
>> then. I don't do clouds.
> 
> Sure it can. To local HDs, local shared drives, and HDs attached to
> another computer either on your LAN or across the internet. But

I use it across three computers - two desktops and a laptop.  The desktops
are in entirely separate locations (my home office and my regular office).
All three computers back up to repositories on local drives connected to
each of the two desktops.

So just from Crashplan, there are two copies of everything from each of
my three computers and those two copies are in separate locations.

And that's all using only the *free* Crashplan set up because I am not
sending anything to Crashplan's servers, only to my own computers.

(And if you don't have a second location, CP lets you send a back up to
any friend who authorizes you to do so - and the friend cannot read or
access your data in any way, since the encryption all lives at your
end).


> regardless it still uses and requires setup of an account. You might
> never use the online admin and restore tools, but they're there. Still,
> there are plenty of other options for local backup requiring no network
> usage. CrashPlan is only one of many :-)

You have to register with them, and their servers need to intervene
at least to the level of each computer connects to them so that they
know where the computers are in order to then connect the computers
to each other to send data.  But none of my data lives on their servers.

One downside is that since I don't have a copy on their servers, I can't
use things like their iOS app to look at my content remotely - that
only works talking to their machines.  For me, not important at all.

I have additional backup measures in place, but Crashplan makes it by
far the easiest to keep the offsite copy.  Time Machine is great for
a local copy (and I use it in addition to CrashPlan).  I have Time
Machine copy the entire machine and were I to try to restore from a
backup, that would be my first go-to copy.  I have Crashplan only
copying data, not all my apps, system files, etc.

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Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 07:15 -0700
  Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) ggrandish@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 15:54 -0700
    Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 16:57 -0700
      Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-09 14:20 +1300
        Re: (I should probably post this elsewhere) licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 20:52 -0700
          Re: (I should probably post this elsewhere) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-09 18:08 +1300
      Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-09 12:58 +0000
        Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2013-10-10 13:46 -0700
      Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-10-12 04:32 -0700
        Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-12 10:49 -0400
          Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-13 13:09 +1300
            Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-12 21:08 -0400
              Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> - 2013-10-14 02:13 +0100
                Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-14 07:23 -0400
        Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-13 13:09 +1300
          Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-10-13 08:22 -0700
            Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-14 07:58 +1300
              Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-10-13 14:14 -0700
                Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-14 13:06 +1300
                Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-10-14 07:38 -0700
                Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-15 04:44 +1300
                Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-11-06 09:58 -0800
  Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) William Munny <will@bigwhiskey.gov> - 2013-10-08 19:23 -0400
  Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-09 12:45 +1300
  Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) William Munny <will@bigwhiskey.gov> - 2013-10-10 16:57 -0400
  Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2013-10-14 18:06 -0700
    Re: Disastrous incompatibility between iphoto and time machine (10.8.5) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-15 17:11 +1300

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