Basic Backup Strategy Advice
I'm trying to get some basic info on backing up my G5.
I know there are a great number of bells and whistles in SuperDuper but I'm looking to establish a basic strategy. My goal is to simply to have a bootable backup HD and to backup my media (photos/video/audio/documents/files). I have two internal hard drives (for the purpose of this discussion I'll call them A & B) and one large external HD which has been partitioned to mirror the two internal HDs (AA & BB): Internal HDs A G5 OS HD B G5 Media HD External HD (partitioned) AA G5 Bkup OS HD BB G5 Bkup Media HD For my A HD when I want to do a backup I assume I should use the following settings: COPY Select: A G5 Boot HD to AA G5 Bkup OS HD USING Backup - all files DURING COPY Copy Different Files For my B HD I assume I should use the following settings: COPY Select: B G5 Media HD to BB G5 Bkup Media HD USING Backup - user files DURING COPY Copy Different Files Questions: 1) Does this setup look OK - or what problems could this setup create? 2) If I added some additional media to my backup BB G5 Bkup Media HD , will using the setting "Backup - user files" and "Copy Different Files" create a problem for me - or will this setting ignore the added new media and basically check the B G5 Media HD against the BB G5 Bkup Media HD and only copy what's different from the original B G5 Media HD to the BB G5 Bkup Media HD - and leave the new media alone? 3) Are there other procedures besides "Schedule Backup" that you would suggest I add for my basic backup goal? 4) One other concern I have is, I tend to try and keep stuff (media/files etc) much longer than I should - can't stand throwing stuff away. Using the above setup my BB G5 Bkup Media HD will continue to fill up until I can't put any more in. I could just buy another HD and keep going but if I decide to go into my B G5 Bkup Media HD at some point and trash stuff (media/files) what setting would I use to make the BB G5 Bkup Media HD resemble the cleaned up B G5 Bkup Media HD? Thanks in advance for your help. Gus |
Looks fine, except you be using "Backup - all files" at all times, and you should be using "Smart Update", not "Copy Different"... certainly, you should be using "Smart Update" for the non-media drive...
Once you're full, you can use erase, then copy or smart update to get the media drive to sync up. |
Thanks for your help.
Since I still can't tell if the backup setup I've described - with your modification added - is the most optimal - could you pass on what setup you use for your backup situation? I expect I could learn a good deal from seeing that. Thanks Gus |
Sure. I rotate three physical backups, a daily, a weekly and a monthly, all Smart Updated.
In addition, I do a daily Smart Update to an image stored on a networked NAS device (an Infrant ReadyNAS). |
Thanks for passing on your setup - that helps a good deal.
I now see why it makes sense to use Smart Update All files for my boot hard drive - but if I have a lot of additional large video & photo files (>200-300 GB) on my Backup Media HD and I want to store them along side my current Media HD Backup using Smart Update - I will erase them I believe - is that correct? Sounds like I may want to have a separate Deep Storage HD I don't update or backup, I just add files to it - these files will be ones I don't need to use any time soon. And then what I do regularly (daily/weekly/monthly) is backup both the boot HD and the Media HD using your Smart Update All Files method for both. How does that sound? Thanks again |
If you want to store files on a drive, partition it into multiple volumes, one for storage and one (or more, whatever) for backup.
You probably do want a place to archive if you plan on doing that! |
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