LifeClever ;-) » Backup http://www.lifeclever.com How to live and work as a designer Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:29:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My MacBook’s fixed… now what? http://www.lifeclever.com/my-macbooks-fixed-now-what/ http://www.lifeclever.com/my-macbooks-fixed-now-what/#comments Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:30:33 +0000 Chanpory Rith http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/19/my-macbooks-fixed-now-what/ Yay! After about a week, Apple’s resurrected my dead MacBook and it’s now back in my hands. The 60GB hard drive was out of stock, so I lucked out and got a free upgrade to an 80GB drive. Of course, this means nothing if (and when) the drive fails again. Now that my computer’s working, it’s time to consider some real backup solutions. I’d like to thank you everyone who posted recommendations. Here’s a round-up of your suggestions.

Hardware

Web-based

Software for backing up

Software for recovering data

Tutorials

For me, the most intriguing are the two network drives: the Seagate Mirra and the Buffalo TeraStation. The advantages of these over web-based systems like Box.net and .Mac is speed and capacity (for large design and multimedia files). Both also offer support for multiple users, and the ability to serve files via the web. The disadvantage is having to deal with yet another hardware box in the home and the inital cost. A 320GB Mirra retails at $499 and 1TB TeraStation comes to around $700.

What might be the dealmaker is the Seagate Mirra’s data guarantee. Seagate will cover up to $1000 of data recovery charges should their drives fail. This combined with software to automate the process of backing up would make an almost failsafe solution. Time for me to save up for that shiny new Mirra!

]]> http://www.lifeclever.com/my-macbooks-fixed-now-what/feed/ 7 My MacBook’s hard drive just died :-( Any suggestions? http://www.lifeclever.com/my-macbooks-hard-drive-just-died-any-suggestions/ http://www.lifeclever.com/my-macbooks-hard-drive-just-died-any-suggestions/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:58:00 +0000 Chanpory Rith http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/12/my-macbooks-hard-drive-just-died-any-suggestions/ The unthinkable has happened: my MacBook’s hard drive gave up and croaked. This means lost data, unrecoverable memories, and tears of pain. It’s been less than 30 days since I purchased the Macbook, so at least Apple is replacing the drive. But until it gets fixed, updates from me might be sporadic for the next few days. The lesson? Beware of refurbished MacBooks from Apple or anyone else.

It’s the third time this year I’ve had a hard drive failure. Earlier, both my PowerBook drive AND my external backup failed. Having lost gigs of data, I’m now looking for a backup process that doesn’t depend solely on having an external drive.

Apple’s upcoming Time Machine, looks interesting, since it can backup to a networked drive. Sadly, it won’t be out until next year. I’m also considering Box.net as a backup solution, but is it worth a 100 bucks?

What automated, redundant, and reliable backup solutions have you tried? I’d love to know!

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