I'm a designer and for the first time ever I feel like my data is actually safe. Although unlikely, they can all break at once. There's no limit on the data and my boot camp partitions show up (2 windows drives do but Solaris drive does not, maybe if I loaded filesystem drivers it would).Īt the end of the day, Time Machine and bootable copies are hardware too.
Mozy is incremental just like time machine. I don't know, can't really beat it other than it's not bootable and not as fast, you'll never lose your data though. They're backed by EMC and I've had the good luck (bad luck?) of actually executing a full restore from their server. It's basically remote time machine and it's very affordable ($50 a year with the coupons you can find everywhere, if you PM me I'll give you my referral code and I'll paypal you half the bonus which I think is something like $15 so you can cut down the cost even more. I've been using Mozy for a while and I love it. If you have sensitive data you should really have some sort of off-site backup. Time machine is nice and it's great to be able to have that luxury of recovering from mistakes (deleted, corrupted, etc.). If my system breaks, I want to be able to boot it elsewhere if necessary without dealing with a time machine restore. As jaduffy suggested, having a bootable copy of your system is very nice and (to me) imperative. And then you'll also have raw copies of any specific folders you like. That will give you the time machine backup for easy, thoughtless backup, and easy restore. Set time machine to use one of the partitions, and on the other one, just copy over the folders you want and then use a folder synchronizing utility to make sure that the contents stay in sync. I'd recommend that you buy a drive significantly larger than your current drive. That being said, it sounds like you just want to put some folders on an external drive, and make sure that the contents get synchronized, right? Right of the bat, it asked her if she wanted to restore from a time machine backup, she clicked yes - and done.
She got her machine back from the Apple store and reinstalled leopard. My girlfriend's hard drive died this past sunday, but she had time machine. Just plug in an external drive, and it works.
Well, let me start off by just giving a general recommendation for Time Machine.
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