Storage options for Mac

[Welshy74]

I'm looking to add some storage/backup. I currently backup to a WD 2TB My Passport Ultra with time machine. I'm looking at another Passport. But my question is I also want to add another higher volume device also. I'm unsure whether something like a WD My book desktop or a cloud type product. I did look at WD my cloud but the reviews seem pretty poor for the software. Bearing in mind my pc skills are pretty rubbish so using with time machine something that just gets on with it in the background and easy to set up for Macbook pro. Or would something like backblaze do the job?? Advice would be greatly appreciated

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[rob-nikon]

For automatic backup on a Mac I use Carbon Copy Cloner. You can set up various ways to backup data that suits exactly what you want it to do.

 

[Welshy74]

For automatic backup on a Mac I use Carbon Copy Cloner. You can set up various ways to backup data that suits exactly what you want it to do.

So CCC I can use to make a complete copy of essentially my mac to another hard drive?? Then use a couple of other drives to backup my photos?? Is that correct as I'm not the best with computers

 

[rob-nikon]

So CCC I can use to make a complete copy of essentially my mac to another hard drive?? Then use a couple of other drives to backup my photos?? Is that correct as I'm not the best with computers

You can set up various ways to copy data across to external devices. They can be thd whole computer or just certain folders.

I currently run two backups (onsite and offsite), both to external drives. The onsite back up copies everything thats new on the main drive. There is a ‘safety net’ function that saves all deleted files to the onsite backup drive for a set time period. It’s useful in case I’ve accidentally deleted something. The off-site backup clones the main drive. I’ve actually got two external drives for the offsite backup, these are swapped over regularly so one is always away from home. CCC emails me with the outcome status of each backup which is a nice way to ensure the backups were successful.

I wrote a blog post on my website a while back. Hopefully that may help you. I’m not the most knowledgeable on computers bug I’ve managed to set up CCC several times.

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To be honest I could probably get away with just two external drives. One would act as the onsite backup and the other the off site backup. Im currently thinking of moving away from a mac back to a PC. CCC is one part I’d miss as I’ve found it to be fantastic.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

It's worth remembering that CCC is basically a front end to rsync, which is already on your Mac : https://gist.github.com/ccraig/6676574. I use both because CCC wasn't that pricey and is a quick way of doing simple clones. Rsync on the other hand is an excellent tool if you're comfortable with the command line...