Comments on: A stitch in time…

By: Michael Maroussas

Michael Maroussas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:56:10 +0000

hi tim – just recently been looking to improve my backup system and so revisited this post of yours – just wondered if you’d made any new discoveries or caveats since writing this? Would you still recommend the Vantec? How come you don’t just use carbon copy cloner for cloning and incremental backup instead of FS? Still using these apps? Any thoughts on time machine, ie do you know if it’s any good?

Many thanks,

Michael

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:39:45 +0000

Since my active projects are never more than 50 or 60 gig each, I usually work on my internal, and do a mirror backup every evening. So my backup drive is the same size as my internal. (My libraries are all on external drives so I only fire them up when I need them.)

I’ve been using this old French software for close to 10 years now, and it’s saved my ass countless times: http://www.tri-edre.fr/english/index.html

I know there are more sophisticated programs around but Tri-edre has been solid for me, so I trust it. Most times it’s saved me from ‘operator error’ (doh!) but a few times from a bad crash.

By: Sébastien Orban

Sébastien Orban — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:01:10 +0000

I’m on the windows side, I use syncback to have a copy of my main data folder on an external hd (once a week, or more if lot of work is done on the computer).

But well, I’m going to take those nice adapter for naked hardrive in the future – eSata will speed things up, and a naked HD cost nearly nothing.
And I’m thinking about raid 5, but without a dedicated controller performance are subpar. And those hardware controller cost too much…
A SAN would be nice too. One day.

But if I was on MacOS X I would take a good look with rsync – open source/free and pretty good. Not really that good on windows though.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:53:52 +0000

i dont use a app for syncing i just copy stuff across..

one reason i do use an app for backups is that when copying lots of files it is faster than using OSX to do it eg i am doing a complete clone of my music sample library, it currently says 539,304 files to go… I’ve had copies like this make my mac run very slow, plus its the incremental aspect that is very handy

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:44:26 +0000

No i dont have ilok zero downtime… not sure what it costs…. I did manage to snap an ilok in half when i was moving – it wasnt my main PT HD system but still a hassle as had to FedEx the broken ilok to them to prove it was real & was broken!?! What bollocks! What should have cost $40 (for a new ilok) and 10 minutes ended up costing $150 and took 3 or 4 days….

Just checked: “Zero Downtime coverage costs only $30.00 per iLok per year” – i have four iloks but only two are critical ie PT HD & plugs… hmmm…

By: leyton

leyton — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:36:11 +0000

for my mac pro i have 3 physical copies of “current” projects (1 on the MP, one on a portable which i back up every night, and one on a 3.5 [off site] which i do once a month off site.. i take the 2.5 current drive with me everywhere…)

and 2 copies of archived projects.. (one onsite.. one off site) i only use drives not dvds for the last 6 years..and im only going to buy 2.5″ drives for backups from now on..

i had a drive caddy sytem but that fell over about a year ago and i havent replaced it so its good to know you have success with the one you are using

during my investigations i found that it is important to spin up your drives regularly..

all my original cds of programs etc are off site.. with one drive onsite of lots of disk images…

i use time machine for my OS drive to a 500g 2.5 inch which i back up once a week ( on tuesdays) the same for my MBP ( on wednesdays)

i dont use a app for syncing i just copy stuff across..

i also have a backup of my sample library attached to the computer at all times so if one raid goes down i just keep going..

i also use dropbox for small little things like ical/addressbook/bookmarks/wallet and my business accounts

once its cheap enough and we get better broadband in NZ id consider getting a S3 account for archiving.

tim do you have ilok zero downtime?

By: Benoit Tigeot

Benoit Tigeot — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:12:08 +0000

Hello Tim

I use a lot things for my backup. I have 2 mac (Macbook Pro with 240gb & MacPro with 1860gb ), a NAS of 1TB and externals hard drives.
The music, pictures and sound library are saved on the externals hards drives and on each computer. I have all data 3 times. I use Chrono Sync for copy. I think is one of the best software.
I have also a Mozy Account for very important files (contacts, ical, pref…).
Everything connected with gigabit connection.
I think an external backup like mozy or AmazonS3 are the best, but the access is too long to work properly.

Chrono Sync
http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html