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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Time machine is built in back up software on the Mac. It backs up to an external hard drive. That is what I have now also. But, I do plan to get JungleDisk and put my data files off-site too... just haven't gone about it yet. Of course, everything I have is backed up at it source too, be it Amazon, Fictionwise, Feedbooks or Mobileread.
BOb
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I realize that, but only having a local backup is only marginally better than having no backup at all. Just ask all those people who lost all of their data, including backups, in Hurricane Katrina.
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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
Wow, and everyone thinks I am anal! Seriously, you will be smiling when I am tearing my hair out. I only have the back-up drive, and delete it off my computer. What if the back-up drive goes? What an idiot!
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If you delete your original file after your backup then you have no backup at all. And, you are right .... not backing up is insane.