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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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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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@futureartist
everything on my mac + iphone is on the cloud, highly recommend
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Gabriel Ayuso โŒ
@gabrielayuso.eth
Everything is on the cloud. I could lose all my devices and it wouldn't make much difference.
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vincent
@pixel
i heard `rm -rf` is really good
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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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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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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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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Cloud sync on obsidian for docs, I gave up on Time Machine man moons ago
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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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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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Landon
@lndnnft
time machine w/ 2tb external ssd
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rish
@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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matthias
@iammatthias
Arq Backup to a Wasabi instance
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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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Mac Budkowski ๐Ÿฅ
@macbudkowski
Most important (and not top secret) files are in Dropbox folders
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
I've just gone back to TimeMachine (hoping it had been improved over the last few years). Prior to that I had stepped away from TimeMachine in favor of "SuperDuper!" https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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no backup only destruction
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SydneyJason
@sydneyjason
At this point I just keep all important files in Dropbox. And synch my browser to the cloud. Most everything else could be recreated in about an hour in a pinchโ€ฆ
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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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