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how many externals and time machine
Seriously, I feel like I have a jillion externals. One for DH's backup, one for photos, one for videos (these need their own because these files are huge and suck up HD space), and now I'm thinking that I need another one just to be my backup for my macbook. I also have two enclosures that house smaller old HD's (that we replaced with bigger ones in our machines). Is this overkill? Should I just invest in two bigger hard drives to replace my main drive in my laptop to avoid using external drives, and to serve as the backup for the main drive? So instead of having my laptop, two externals, and a backup, I'd have the main and the backup?
What's your setup situation? Also, for those with macs... how do you like time machine? I've heard good things, but just want to make sure..
Re: how many externals and time machine
I currently only have 1 external for backing up my laptop. I'm thinking about buying an external for my photos, that are now sucking up hard drive space. I definitely want it to be separate from the backup disk. It sounds like you could consolidate a lot. External drives are pretty cheap now. You can get a huge one for less than $200 easy.
I do use Time Machine to back up my laptop. It makes it sooooo easy to back it up. I haven't had to do a system restore using a backup, but I can't imagine it would be too hard. The first backup takes a few hours to do, but after that it just backs up changes to the old image and takes a few minutes. So simple.
I only have my photos backed up right now but am considering getting a media center to back up all of my media content and facilitate sharing with DH.
I would read reviews before buying time machine. I found lots of reviews that say it dies after a year (usually right after your warrantee expires). That would make me really unhappy and has kept me from purchasing!
I was talking about the time machine software with Mac OS X. I use it with a LaCie backup drive.
We don't store much at all on our machines, since we have a habit of buying new machines fairly often. So most of our files are on external drives. We have photos and scanned documents backed up on a second external drive as well.
Recently we bought a network drive with a 1TB drive and a second currently-empty drive bay. We'll probably start using that as our primary photo storage along with most of our other less-important non-backed-up files.