Just reworked my backup routine and would appreciate any feedback on how to improve it / make better use of my drives.
I've just bought a new cheap (£80) 1TB drive (
a buffalo drivestation from AmazonUK) and have reworked my backup setup to try and make best use of it.
Currently I have an MBP (last rev) with a 186GiB internal drive split into a 155GiB OS X Leopard and a 31GiB XP BootCamp (which I don't backup).
Drives I have available:
500GB Western Digital MyBook FW400 & USB2
1TB Buffalo DriveStation USB2
300GB PikaOne (lol, it was cheap alright!) USB2
Current usage:
1TB/930GiB partitioned into
- 300GiB Time Machine
- 155GiB SuperClone
- 475GiB Fodder (stuff I don't need backed up)
500GB/465GiB partitioned into
- 155GiB SuperDuper
- 300GiB TimeClone
As you've probably guessed, "Time Machine" is the primary Time Machine drive, the rest all use SD!s smart update, "SuperDuper" is an OS X clone to boot from if my internal drive dies, the two others are for redundancy in case a backup drive dies.
- Overkill / Not overkill enough?
- Any ideas to make better use of them?
- If I could empty the 300GB, is there a backup area I've neglected where it could be put to work?
Thanks for reading
Appreciate it's a bit random but I don't really know what I'm doing and I'm sure you do