my main device, an iMac, is connected with Backblaze which is another offsite backup of most everything.all macOS devices have automatic and frequent offsite backups of parts of the system to Dropbox’s new backup service (not sync).Very important folders of files kept outside of DEVONthink copied (automated) daily to a local Synology NAS (with Carbon Copy Cloner).NAS has the space to have these backups goes back a few years. all macOS devices have automatic daily full system backups with Apple TimeMachine directed to attached USB drives and to the Synology NAS.If, like me, however, the most important files tend to be the most recently created, then a more continuous backup strategy makes sense, and BackBlaze (and Arq) do provide a hassle-free way to accomplish that, albeit at a higher cost. The next day, when classes started, she was ready to go and that was worth the cost of the online storage.Įveryone’s needs vary, and one way to look at BackBlaze is to ask the question of how much recent data can you afford to lose? If, for example, losing a month of work would not make any difference to you, you might do just as well with an offsite drive that you bring in once / month to clone your system to. With one day before classes started and her desperately in need of all of her data and a working computer, I was able to order a new MBA at the local BestBuy, have her pick it up, remote into her new computer, install Arq, and restore her files from her Arq backup. The day after she arrived, her MBA died (turned out, eventually, to be a dead system board, but that’s another story). A few years ago, my daughter traveled some 1500 miles away for graduate school. ![]() Probably overkill, and probably time for me to rethink the strategy, but I have had to restore from cloud backup twice over the past 10 years (not everthing, but in both cases a significant amount of data and files that I would have been unhappy to have lost).Īnother perk of cloud storage, which I have posted about previously (no idea where that thread is). I do use both BackBlaze and Are (to Wasabi) to have two cloud backups. Unfortunately, the reality is that prices just go up - internet access, cell phone, streaming TV, electricity…very little in my experience costs substantially less over time. ![]() (I guess with the caveat that I do need a device to plug the drive into…) In reality, I have never needed backups except to rectify something stupid I’ve done, but I think in the event of a disaster, when realistically I won’t really care about most files at that moment, I know I can quickly regain access to what I might need. If there is a fire, how reliable will my internet access be? Would I want to spend time downloading stuff once I’ve found an internet connection, or would I prefer to plug and access whatever files I needed in an emergency (my assumption is that actual system restoration would come later, but I still need to access key files in the meantime). The backup is a safety net because sometimes computers go wrong.įor the second, a disaster, I’ve never experienced one but I’ve thought about it and don’t want to rely on external systems I don’t have control over.
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