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Originally Posted by ChrisC333
It only backs up every hour if the drive is connected.  |
Well, you got me there.
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Originally Posted by ChrisC333
The drawback to leaving a backup drive permanently connected is that you risk losing the whole lot in the case of theft or fire.
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Of course, that is why I use a two layer backup system. Time Machine is for data loss (even accidental deletion) due to system failure.
Backing up to the cloud protects against catastrophic loss (theft, fire, etc.) where both the Mac drive and the Time Machine drive are lost.
(Actually I have another layer, I do a full drive backup with SuperDuper every now and then which is a mirror of my system drive that I could boot from and work off of until I get a change to rebuild the system using the more up to date Time Machine drive.)
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