[BC] Off Site Backup

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My back-up plan is to have Time Machine back up to Time Capsule once  
an hour.  Then about once a week I plug in an external drive which I  
alternate with a second drive.  I use Carbon Copy Cloner, so those  
drives are bootable mirrors of my drive.  That is all on site, so if I  
have a house fire, or a tornado takes my house away, I would be screwed.

So about once a month, I take that most recent back-up and put it in  
the safety deposit box, bringing the one that has been there for a  
month home.  The bank is only about three air miles from my home, so  
it is certainly possible for a tornado to take out my house and the  
bank (even though it is a brick building), but I believe the vault  
will survive.

Time Machine has saved me a few times when I have deleted something,  
then wanted it back.  I just go back to a date and time when the file  
was on my machine, and drag and drop it back to my machine.  It is  
very cool.

--chip

On Jun 12, 2012, at 8:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 2
> From: "Dan Mammone" <danmammone at wnir.com>
>
> We are only backing up documents, not systems. Your point is valid  
> if it was
> for systems; I would not have even considered Carbonite.
>
> Remember, in my set-up, the Carbonite plan is the easiest and free  
> way to
> back up the critical data on our LAN. And since I am backing up an  
> ongoing
> backup to one computer, my first "offense" would be to restore the  
> local
> data from the extra drive. The likelyhood of any restores happening  
> would be
> slim. It would have to be a complete failure - all computers on the  
> LAN, the
> LAN itself, or the ISP - to even need to restore from Carbonite.
>
> Dan Mammone, CBRE