It’s those people who saw backing up as an intimidating venture they didn’t have the energy to figure out, if they thought of it at all. I know most of you reading this are much more tech savvy than the average user, but think of how many people you know need help just to sync their iPod.
Super duper os x sleep mac#
Now, for those of you that know you should backup regularly, but don’t, I’m guessing there are two main reasons: In a nutshell, this means that if you could snap your fingers and make one Mac user’s main hard drive disappear, there’s a 96 percent chance that you just destroyed files that are completely unrecoverable. That actually doesn’t sound too bad until you get to the next question. Only 80 percent?) Twenty-six percent said they do backup their data. On page 14 of his epic Leopard review, John Siracusa talks about Time Machine and shares some (pre-Leopard) backup stats of Mac users based on a poll Apple took: Eighty percent of Mac users said they knew they should backup their data. Which is why SuperDuper is the ideal companion to everyone using Leopard and an absolute necessity to everyone on 10.4 and below. Not that Time Machine is not a good backup solution, but it’s not the best answer to every data-loss problem.
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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.
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.
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