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

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On 13/10/2013 02:08, nospam wrote:
> In article <1laokg7.1ysocm8ofbufzN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
> Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>
>>>>> Yes, this is the problem, TM just isnt a reliable app for backups
>>>>
>>>> How long has this been happening? My client and I use it for external
>>>> USB HDD backups too. What's a good free alternative then?
>>>
>>> time machine works just fine.
>>
>> Leaving aside my bad past personal experiences with TM, I wouldn't trust
>> TM or any other backup app as the only backup method. That's inviting
>> disaster, as the OP and many others find out every day.
>
> the more backups the better.
>
> and no matter what anyone chooses, there will always be someone with a
> horror story.

Agrred.  ieard someone saying a year of so ago that at least three 
backups should be made to give some confidence of recovery.

The three backups should be of different types (I have a Time machine, a 
SuperDuper and Varbon Copy Cloner).

The three backups should be on different media (I have two backup drives 
on my Ageing mac Pro plus a couple of Network Servers.

Preferably the backups should be in different places so I'm building a 
garden shed, insulated and heated, for my workroom and will have one of 
the network servers left in the house.

I don't use any Cloud facilities as they could go broke at a moment's 
notice and pull the plug on me.  And they probably charge for a Terabyte 
of storage.

And replace the disc drives every few years.

I'm not very good a double checking that they are wll recoverable from.

Anything else?

-- 
Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim@powys.org
              for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

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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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