Superduper back up
#Superduper back up archive
My point? Time Machine makes a better archive system than it does a catastrophic events solution. To recap: the only time I have ever used Time Machine was to find a misplaced folder. So I launched into outer space and found the archived version and restored it. What I did remember was that the folder had been on my desktop.
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I moved the folder, and a few weeks later when I was ready for the screenshots I couldn’t remember where I had moved the folder to or what it was even called. I made a folder with some screenshots and had it sitting on my desktop for a day or two. It was while working on the NetNewsWire review. So far I have only used Time Machine once since Leopard came out… With the advent of Time Machine backup awareness went through the roof. But for the average user here is my advice: keep it simple use SuperDuper to keep a bootable copy of your main startup drive, and let Time Machine do its thing to archive stuff. Of course, there are those who do need multiple backups, archive history and the ability to roll back, and you know who you are. What do you mean, “so what?”” moment of glory. And when that day does come they will discover that they have deleted the file – or overwritten it, or something else catastrophic – and thus, by not having that one file at the theoretical moment of truth they will not impress their fellow nerds in a, “Look what I kept for all these years. Once people jump on the backup regularly bandwagon, the sinkhole that many fall into is to stress the details: the absurd fear that some day there will be some file that they will absolutely have to have. You don’t even know it’s running but you hear the hard drive spinning, and watch your system slow down for a few minutes. A backup plan is only as good as its followthrough – which is why Time Machine is so epic. Everybody “knows” they should backup the problem is they don’t. The “you should backup regularly” argument needs little coaxing. My advice for a good backup strategy? Keep it simple.