tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post1957408123297619812..comments2023-02-16T05:41:44.099-05:00Comments on IMRAN™: In My Humble Opinion: Love The Cloud With No Limits, But Know Your Limits!IMRAN™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-71725676076821701022017-04-26T19:09:57.712-04:002017-04-26T19:09:57.712-04:00Someone posted about using a single very large siz...Someone posted about using a single very large sized disk and putting all backups on that. Here was my response: In this day age, with large capacity hard disks less and less expensive, and the failure rates of even previously incredibly reliable brands going higher and higher, multiple-redundancy is the only way to even begin to feel safe. Even if someone had a 100TB hard drive for $500 I would not put everything on that one drive regardless of number of permissions, or would have more than one of those drives. Here is an EXAMPLE of how I have my ONE primary MacBook Pro based digital life protected. MacBook Pro 1TB SSD backs up to 2 separate 5TB external drives in New York. And in Florida. More on that later. In addition I use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the MacBook Pro to two external drives, one Thunderbolt and one USB. Each of the backups is encrypted in case one or more drives are stolen or lost. PLUS, my encrypted docs, music, photos, etc. are also backed up to cloud storage (but I still do not put anything super sensitive in the cloud despite being a professional in that industry). <br />As I mentioned earlier, I also duplicate the whole drives set up in New York and Florida. Why? Even if you do not have two homes, or a home and office, you surely have a home and a family member's home to use. What good are six hard drives in one home if flooding, or ceiling water leak, or fire, or a hurricane destroy the home? <br />For my desktop 9 years old iMac running as a server, it has an external USB drive next to it, backups wirelessly to a NAS upstairs (in case fire or water damage only happened on that desk), and on a network shared 4TB hard drive, which is a holdall of all the Macs I use and which I carry with me during my travels. So, even if I am in Pakistan or Paris, I have the ability to restore my MacBook Pro right there if it has a hard drive crash, plus ability to restore any of my Macs should something happen to a home while I am not there. In my personal life I am a bit of an adventurer, loving racing cars, motorcycles, yachting, sailing, jet ski, skydiving, and more. But in the area of data backups, I feel I am not paranoid enough! :-) IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.com