BACKUPPPPPPP
SuperDuper!! I’ve never ever used time machine one single time to install a new freshly formatted mac.. Never. But as a good father trying to keep all the binary digits together in this digital era, I thought it was a great plan, to automatically let Time Machine do its thing, silently, while I was compressing kickdrums and 909 claps. But should we still make backups? And if yes, how, why, when, where? Over 3 decades, I tried several setups. Local drives, network attached storage, cloud, none,.. But never felt very safe in whatever method I was making the backups. Time machine is of course idiot/fool proof but when your mac dies, get stolen or you smash that perfectly good guitar on it, ok, you have a backup but you must install a complete new system and it can take hours. Even in this high speed MB/s era…
Last year, as an idiot as I sometimes can be, I purchased Superduper to make individual folder backups. Well well, the program isn’t written to do that. It’s a tool to make bootable backups (1:1 copies).. Ok, let’s just use time machine a little bit longer. Fast forward.
Last week, in a some binary anxiety losing everything panic, I thought: let’s give it another try to backup my system like a pro. Well, I started reading the SuperDuper! manual and I got surprised with the fact that you can make a bootable clone of your mac’s HD/SSD, plus it has this nifty function to ‘smart update’ that already made boot-drive. I was like: hell yeah, why would I still need Time machine?
So I made a fresh bootable drive with smart update function… I tried to list up, what files are exactly needed and where has to go what? Since we have this way too expensive Icloud subscription running ( for my Ableton projects ), I thought Skov, what’s the plan. How to make things a bit easy, reliable or better: redundant?
So here’s what I came up with:
The Icloud automated backup (Fool proof but how safe ?)
The SuperDuper! bootable Clone drive (SSD) (When the SSD is attached it automatically updates the drive)
The HDD attached to a HD dock, running Time Machine ( everyday backup )
A manual backup from my projects folder to an external SSD ( when I think about it )
It feels pretty safe now, working this way. I don’t know if this is the waterproof backup method, but it sure feels quite secure.
Don’t sleep on Backups. Up till now, I haven’t got any severe crashes but there’s a lot of pc/mac users, who run into a crash now and then.
Better safe than sorry?
