Posted by Douglas Roberts-2 on Apr 08, 2013; 6:26pm URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cloud-storage-tp7582450p7582594.html
Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when there is a perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly backup script, which currently sends my nightly incrementals to a cheap 3TB USB3 external drive:
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
My $.02 on Time Machine.
I bought a 2TB time machine about 4? years ago and set up two MB
Pro's with it. Other than a little irritation from accidental
reboots on the device (connected to the same power strip as my
flakey motorola internet service, yielding a reboot via powerstrip
toggle sometimes), I've had nothing but good look.
I've only had one occasion to do a full restore in an emergency
and it worked like a charm.. I *have* used it to migrate between
MB Pros and an iMac about 5 or 6 times in the same period. That
has worked flawlessly as well.
It might be prudent to back that up somewhere offsite, but I'm
just not that prudent and now am spoiled to my regular "backup"
and potential "restores" being almost entirely invisible to me. I
can't tell from the discussion on the list how "transparent" the
true cloud services are, unfortunately I'm pretty sure my totally
lame internet would make *restore* a long and painful experience.
- Steve
I have one data point. One of our Macs near Seattle had a drive
fail, so I had an employee take it to an Apple store. The 'genius'
was very happy when he saw the Time Machine, and, I think, nothing
was lost.
About the depth of cloud backups: I now use Arq on the Mac.
The backups are in Amazon's S3, and the frequency is settable: I
have one done every hour. You set a limit on how much space you
want to use -- just as a Time Machine has a fixed size -- and
once you hit that limit, it will overwrite the oldest versions
as necessary. Also the paid version of DropBox keeps at least
some history. For saving a Time Machine offsite, Amazons Glacier
storage is one cent a gigabyte per month, so your 150 gigabytes
would be $18 per year. They really hit you with transfer charges
if you try to read a large amount in a short time, but since
that presumably happens only when your Mac and your time machine
have both been roasted in a fire, you probably will be happy to
pay them. Unfortunately 150 gigs is not enough for most time
machines.
--Barry
On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:42 AM, "Robert J. Cordingley" <[hidden email]>
wrote:
So has anyone successfully
restored an entire system from the Cloud (or a Time
Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any
statistics on success rate?
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