![]() I have looked at CCloner but just don’t understand the explanations. If I restore from the backup, it forces me to download the all the apps from instead of being able to restore from the local hard drive. But with caps, and the meter always running, it’s a huge burden. Downloading the same OS and apps over and over again just gobble up the bandwidth which I don’t have (and, frankly, can’t afford). It’s as though I never put it on the machine. Or… if I try out a new program and decide I don’t like it, if I can go replace the whole image with a clean one, I have no trace or stubs leftover. When I just delete, I find there is a lot of “stuff” left behind that I just can’t find and delete. So when I’m done editing, I like to revert to a “clean” OS and start over. The files are enormous (as you would expect). I’m working a lot with iMovie and old VHS home videotapes I have from 20-30 years ago. So repeatedly downloading from the Internet is why I keep wanting image back-ups. Here’s why I want the boo table disk image. Thank you very much for all the interesting replies. ![]() Does it make sense to get the internal 512 drive and add an external SSD or should I add SSD internally Will 512 be enough for the future I don’t use many software packages. But how much are all your memories and other data worth? To me, they are worth the cost of paying for a proper backup. I will be transitioning from a pc to a Mac M1. I put Backblaze on my daughter’s MacBook Pro (she had Carbonite, but it stopped working, so I cancelled it and we switched to Backblaze).Ī PC/Mac and its operating system and apps can be quickly re-installed and are “cheap”. I use Carbonite, on my PC, in addition to syncing my files to HiDrive (European, GDPR equivalent to OneDrive, iCloud etc.), a separate HDD and to my NAS which get synced daily at a fixed time. Some cloud services, like OneDrive (I don’t know about iCloud) do keep multiple versions available, but I still wouldn’t trust them 100% as a backup. My, now I guess, old, M1 Mac Mini barely goes above 10 CPU when backing up. If you get hit by cryto malware, for example, or you corrupt a file or delete it, you can’t get it back from a cloud sync, because the copy in the cloud has been encrypted, synced or deleted as well. Backblaze costs just 7 per month for Unlimited storage with no caps on file. Even if it is synced to the cloud, as opposed to backed up to the cloud (the former keeps the copy in the cloud in sync with what is on the PC and is not a backup, the latter is a distinct copy (usually with multiple revisions)). These infrequent sponsored emails help us to provide our Xpresso newsletter for free.It is your data, more than a boot image that is important. Follow the links in the newletter footer.Īdditional Opt-In Content From Architosh.Įmails on relevant new technologies and special offers just for Xpresso readers, only from our trusted partners.
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