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Econ technologies chronosync12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Additionally, if you have your application installers (or can easily download them) you needn’t back up your applications nor their support files-iDVD’s themes and GarageBand’s loops come to mind. On the other hand, you can probably exclude the college papers you penned in the mid-90s and that archive of jokes forwarded to your AOL account. For example, if you’ve purchased a lot of content from the iTunes Store (music and videos rather than books and apps, as you can easily re-download the latter) or spent weeks ripping your CD collection, you’ll want a backup of this content somewhere. Now work your way through descending layers of potential regret. At this point, ask yourself this important question: Which of this data will cause me to burst into tears when it’s lost? For many people the resulting list will contain these items: Personal photos and videos, e-mail, financial data, in-progress work projects, personal creative projects, contacts, calendar events, and bookmarks. If, however, you’re backing up multiple Macs and all of them have a significant amount of data on them, you must be choosier. However, if you routinely store data outside of your Home folder-at the root level of your hard drive, for example-you should consider moving it to within that Home folder or prepare to configure your backup software so that it looks in such nooks and crannies for your data. ![]() As long as you store your important data within this folder, you’re set. If you don’t have a lot of data and do have plenty of storage, there’s no harm in backing up your entire Home folder. Part of the backup battle is figuring out what you should and shouldn’t back up. While a 1TB drive may seem impossible to fill today, next year it may prove to be positively cramped. Unless cloud storage really takes hold we can expect to store increasing amounts of data in the future. ![]() Thanks to massive media files and libraries, we store a lot of data these days. Next, calculate the amount of storage you need to back up all your computers and then double or even triple it. Shop around and you can find 2TB external drives for around $150-internal 2TB drives can be had for half that.Ī power-efficient Mac mini makes a great backup server. Unless you have a Mac with an easily upgradable hard drive (an old Mac Pro or Power Mac G5, for example) you’ll want to get an external hard drive. ![]() Storing backups on CD or DVD is fine if you have little data and a single Mac to back up, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth to babysit a multiple-Mac backup using optical media. In regard to storage, hard drives are today’s easiest way to store backups. And you pay only for back up software and storage rather than a wireless router that may be redundant given the gear you already own. You can add exactly as much storage as you need (and upgrade that storage at a later time). With the right software you can back up not only Macs running older versions of the Mac OS, but Windows PCs and Linux computers as well. And, of course, at $299 (1TB model) or $499 (2TB model) you’re paying for features beyond storage, including wireless routing.Ī Mac-based backup server allows you to get around these limitations. Additionally, if you have a lot of data to back up, the 1 or 2TB of storage found on a Time Capsule may not be enough. However, if some of your Macs are using an older version of the Mac OS, you’re out of luck as they don’t support Time Machine. Time Capsule is an acceptable and easy-to-use solution as it allows you to back up multiple Macs running Leopard or Snow Leopard to a single device via Apple’s Time Machine. Ask Apple about multi-Mac backups and you’ll likely be directed to its ![]()
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