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Greg
@greg
how do you backup your mac? time machine, drag and drop important files, something else? and if time machine - what drive do you use? its super slow for me
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Gabriel Ayuso
@gabrielayuso.eth
Everything is on the cloud. I could lose all my devices and it wouldn't make much difference.
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@futureartist
everything on my mac + iphone is on the cloud, highly recommend
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Joshua Miller
@joshmiller
I have Time Machine on a Crucial USB-C SSD drive and also Backblaze. Time Machine is great for losing a file or corrupting a filesystem, or moving to a new machine. Backblaze I prefer to never use but it's there in case my house burns down.
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vincent
@pixel
i heard `rm -rf` is really good
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
Full system backup via Time Machine, plus iCloud backup for documents and smaller media files Separate drives for raw footage (outside of Time Machine) Buy these like hot cakes SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable External Solid State Drive 1TB https://a.co/d/0xJu0AE
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Colin
@colin
Google Drive 2-way synced to my Documents folder. Photos and other large files to my external hard drive. Both my Mac and external drive synced to Backblaze
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Mac Budkowski แต
@macbudkowski
Most important (and not top secret) files are in Dropbox folders
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Alberto Ornaghi
@alor
Time Machine to a synology. You setup and forget. Hourly backup. Let it manage it for you. Backup should not be painful. TM was created for this.
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matthias
@iammatthias
Arq Backup to a Wasabi instance
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@rish
I have most things on a mix of iCloud and google drive. I work at my desk most of the time so my mac automatically backs up to a Time Machine HDD every hour. Because itโ€™s hourly, any one instance only takes a few mins. Does take longer if Iโ€™m traveling and come back after weeks. Then I do overnight to catch up
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Landon
@lndnnft
time machine w/ 2tb external ssd
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Yash Karthik
@yashkarthik
Time machine I have a 1 tb hdd, I plug it in regularly sobewch backup takes ~8 min Also nextcloud for super important files
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Chris
@cmlad.eth
Synching to a Raspberry Pi; Time Machine over the network to a 4TB drive connected to a Mac mini that is always on. I back up 4 Macs total
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Cloud sync on obsidian for docs, I gave up on Time Machine man moons ago
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dylan
@dylsteck.eth
time machine with a random 2TB hard drive I have -- but backing up takes such a long time that I barely do it
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Will
@wg
Time Machine to an external SSD connected via thunderbolt locally, and TM over Tailscale when mobile
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Mu Li
@muli
CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) which is way better than Time Machine. Combine with with an external ssd like Sandisk Extreme or Samsung T7. CCC runs on a schedule and backs up the entire system in 5-10 minutes.
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@mxvoid
Time Machine, with some critical files backed up to a cloud service. I use a 7200 RPM drive on a USB 3.0 dock, and it can take a while if I havenโ€™t done it in a while, but I usually leave it on and run the backup when I have a lot of idle time to spare.
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ukstv
@ukstv
Time Machine for local files and system recovery. GitHub for code. OneDrive for files. And everything else is in cloud-synced applications.
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