Thoughts on image storage and backups

[gstark]

From what I can make out, it doesn't care. The documentation indicates it will back up both locally and across the internet. At the moment, I am just trying local (baby steps!) but the idea of a remote backup to another site is appealing.

Just a couple of points on this: do uploads count into your bandwidth? If so, then this might be a good option. Otherwise, your upload speed will be relatively slow, and this will have a significant impact on the apparent speed of the backup, and thus the length of time it may take to happen.

Of course, I'm sure you're well aware of those two points, but just in case ....

I will look into SuperDuper, but your use of it indicates it is more of a migration tool than a backup tool. Similar to Ghost in the DOS world.

Yes, but way easier than Ghost, and my use of it doesn't preclude its use as a backup tool: just plug in an external drive, set it up, and go to bed. When you awake, it's all done.

[Mr Darcy]

Just a couple of points on this: do uploads count into your bandwidth? If so, then this might be a good option. Otherwise, your upload speed will be relatively slow, and this will have a significant impact on the apparent speed of the backup, and thus the length of time it may take to happen.

It is famous for its delta-transfer algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination.

[photohiker]

Does this help:

HOWTO Backup your Mac with rsync

I have used RsyncX in the past, and it worked very well. Use Time Machine now though.

Michael

[Mr Darcy]

A further note.
I found another tutorial on this this morning. I followed it. It seemed to work ( I gave no destination & it happily listed files.) So I put in the same string this morning that I used yesterday. Working now. I have NO IDEA what I did wrong yesterday. I cut and pasted the line from yesterday, so it wasn't a typo.

EDIT:
Thanks Photohiker. That looks like just what I need.

[photohiker]

I have NO IDEA what I did wrong yesterday. I cut and pasted the line from yesterday, so it wasn't a typo.

Hmm. The only thing that springs to mind is that you may not have had full read permission to the directory you were in at the time. Your string had a '.' in it, for the source path which in bash commandline speak means 'the current directory'

Other than that, no idea.

Michael

[radar]

Instead of starting yet another thread on backups, just thought I'd keep things here.

Chase Jarvis, pro shooter, put together a video on what he does for his workflow in terms of capture/backup/workflow. It's all fairly general but it gives you a very good idea of what you should be aiming for in terms of backups. He is Mac centric but this can be adapted and scaled to any platform Windows/OS X/Linux/etc

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/0 ... oto-video/

cheers,

André