Re: Super Duper v. CCC for rotating/incremental backups.

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Subject	Re: Super Duper v. CCC for rotating/incremental backups.
Date	2014-02-25 15:49 -0800
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On 2014-02-19 21:52:47 +0000, Alan Browne said:
> II.
> But, I'd like to return to a (non-TM) incremental backup as well.  
> Given the well known mystery drops of T-M, I don't want to depend on 
> it.  I'd like to return to rotating HD's out of the house to keep at a 
> friend's house. (as I used to do with my Windows BUs).

Have you considered CrashPlan?

Their *free* version allows you to back up to a drive connected to your 
own machine and/or a drive connected to either another machine of yours 
or a friend's machine -- over the network.

I have a two sites, each with a desktop machine and each does Crashplan 
backups to the other.  (i.e., home is backed up to the office, and vice 
versa).  (And the laptops go to both - no locally attached repository 
for the laptops)

Way easier than hauling drives back and forth between them, and fully 
automated.

Just sayin'.   (And re: other conversation, the Crashplan repository on 
the machine at home is on the Drobo there...)

Note that TM does just fine backing up to a networked drive (i.e., the 
laptop backs up to a drive connected to the airport extreme, too), 
Crashplan does not - it really hates a networked drive, and if you want 
to back up over the network, it goes to another *machine* which itself 
has a local drive).  At least, that's my experience.  A Mac Mini would 
be *perfect* for this, but I don't have one...

Any back up plan which requires me to swap drives by hand is a plan 
which is destined for failure.  Time Machine and Crashplan just work.  
I do periodically make a SuperDuper clone, but mainly I use SD for 
cloning drives when swapping them out of machines or getting ready to 
do major software updates like an OS update.

Anyway, that's what works for me.  YMMV, obviously.

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Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-19 16:52 -0500
  Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 16:15 -0800
    Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 00:39 +0000
      Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-02-20 03:09 +0000
        Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 15:22 +0000
          Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. billy@MIX.COM - 2014-02-20 16:10 +0000
            Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 16:33 +0000
            Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 17:44 +0000
              Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 17:52 +0000
                Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-21 01:32 +0000
                Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-21 17:13 +0000
              Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 17:39 -0500
                Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-21 01:33 +0000
                Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 20:44 -0500
            Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 17:37 -0500
    Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Ned Mantei <ned.mantei@biol.ethz.ch> - 2014-02-20 09:21 +0100
  Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. billy@MIX.COM - 2014-02-20 16:20 +0000
  Re: Super Duper v.  CCC  for rotating/incremental backups. Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-02-25 15:49 -0800

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