I've been considering a Drobo for some time. Any suggestions?
Michael
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Gary <foto_grapher@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Carl
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> With the cost of Carbonite you could have bought 1 if not 2 500GB/1TB
> drives for backup and had a rotating pair of drives keeping one offsite at a
> friends house. As folks pointed out earlier the online solution is fine for
> some but not quite what photographers with large files need.
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> My solution just changed. I backup to external drives about once a month.
> Every night I backup my four internal drives to a Drobo which has 4x1.5TB
> drives. I on a Mac and using SuperDuper. I had tried TimeMachine but it kept
> running out of room. I am backing up a total of 4.2TB of data (give or
> take). SuperDuper, after the initial backup which on restore is bootable,
> only backs up the changes. I schedule them to run between midnight and 6 am.
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> The Drobo is partitioned into 4 drives, one for each of my internal drives.
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> Drives are cheap. Hope you never need to restore for anything, but wonder
> how long it would take to get it back from Carbonite.
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> Don't forget that unless you have a backup of your primary boot drive that
> you will need to reinstall everything from scratch. Good idea regardless of
> platform to do a drive image monthly for just that reason.
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*Michael*
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