suggestions for this backup plan?
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:11 pm
Hi everyone,
Up until now, I have been playing with fire and not backing anything up with any regularity. This is now going to change, and I have two 250 GB Neptune firewire drives from OWC coming in the mail. I plan on reconfiguring the manner in which I have been storing things and was wondering if anyone had any feedback before I implement. Bear in mind that my uses are relatively simple and the most valuble data to me boils down to DP projects, iTunes libraries and iPhoto libraries.
In addition to the two drives coming, I have an OWC Mercury firewire drive that I've been using for recording and storing my DP projects to; I plan to use this for ONLY this now. On my internal HD I have my apps, and store my itunes and photo libraries. I had been backing up DP projects here, but I'd like to save that space, and use the internal mainly for the above mentioned.
So with one of the Neptunes, I'd like to backup (using SuperDuper) a bootable clone of my internal HD, and on another partition, backup my DP projects. On the other i will do virtually the same, but store it elsewhere in the event that my house burns down.
So the one question I really have - aside from if anyone sees any holes in this proposal, or a better way of doing it - is whether it is enough to have my itunes and iphotos libraries backed up as part of the bootable clone of my internal HD, or should those files be backed up seperately as well on another partition of one of the external drives. This would seem to be redundant to me, but I don't really know.
Anyway thanks for wading through this any for any feedback. I've been cheating fate, and I'll really breathe a sigh of relief when I get this set up!
Happy 4th!
Zwolf
Up until now, I have been playing with fire and not backing anything up with any regularity. This is now going to change, and I have two 250 GB Neptune firewire drives from OWC coming in the mail. I plan on reconfiguring the manner in which I have been storing things and was wondering if anyone had any feedback before I implement. Bear in mind that my uses are relatively simple and the most valuble data to me boils down to DP projects, iTunes libraries and iPhoto libraries.
In addition to the two drives coming, I have an OWC Mercury firewire drive that I've been using for recording and storing my DP projects to; I plan to use this for ONLY this now. On my internal HD I have my apps, and store my itunes and photo libraries. I had been backing up DP projects here, but I'd like to save that space, and use the internal mainly for the above mentioned.
So with one of the Neptunes, I'd like to backup (using SuperDuper) a bootable clone of my internal HD, and on another partition, backup my DP projects. On the other i will do virtually the same, but store it elsewhere in the event that my house burns down.
So the one question I really have - aside from if anyone sees any holes in this proposal, or a better way of doing it - is whether it is enough to have my itunes and iphotos libraries backed up as part of the bootable clone of my internal HD, or should those files be backed up seperately as well on another partition of one of the external drives. This would seem to be redundant to me, but I don't really know.
Anyway thanks for wading through this any for any feedback. I've been cheating fate, and I'll really breathe a sigh of relief when I get this set up!
Happy 4th!
Zwolf