Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:12:50 -0700 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <9vhcjmFs7eU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1335136370 14019 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2012 23:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:12:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.7 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:24217 On 2012-04-22 05:27:22 +0000, Király said: > TaliesinSoft wrote: >> This incident was by no means the first time I have helped a person set >> up a backup routine. My curiosity is what is it that seems to make >> people not realize the importance of regular backups? > > In the back of their minds, people know that they could lose everything. > But it's something that they think will happen to somebody else and not > them, so they don't prepare. Unless or until they've either lost data themselves or known someone firsthand who did, most people just don't think about it or realize that it can happen to them. A family member lost a couple of years worth of family pictures. All the rest of us rallied to find pictures of our own of them all and did our best to help. And since that day, he's been running Time Machine as well as periodically using SuperDuper. Furthermore, since that day, everyone else in the family who hadn't been doing so are all now doint at least Time Machine if not more. The nice thing about Time Machine is that you just don't have to really do much of anything. Especially if it's via a remote (ie. time capsule) so you don't even have to plug in an external drive or anything. It's far from perfect - but it's trivially easy and, for the most part, just works. > I have backups up the yinyang, both local and offsite. But I am > admittedly very far behind in adequately preparing my household for an > earthquake, despite the local goverment harping on all of us for years > to get going with it. I know I should. I'll get around to it. > Eventually. Aren't those offsite backups were your earthquake plan? (I do offsites as well via CrashPlan)