Which backup should I be using?
07/04/25 Filed in: Backup | time machine
I asked family member, “You have been backing up your computer up, correct?. He said “Yeah, iCloud." I said, “No the little black drive you are supposed to plug into each night…oh that…not recently…” Good news for any recent writing, it should be in the cloud. Passwords/keychain/configuration etc he’ll just have to go with whatever is saved on the last back up I guess. There is likely something else I am not thinking about, but if important maybe a rescue effort could be done on old hard drive? The battery was shot and wouldn’t hold a charge for long. He used only plugged in so maybe the just the battery was damaged? probably wishful but a thought. SO I do not know exactly his storage usage but likely mine is larger than his. Mine is 418 GB. I just don’t want to force him to back up photos to an external drive down the road and optimize to the cloud…any effort will likely not be met properly if you catch my rift.🙄 I’ll check capacity on Air and hopefully they have raised their capacity from last time I looked. Please share your thoughts.
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While having a good healthy time machine copy is my preference when transferring data, the cloud does work as a secondary backup. We’d just have to reinstall whatever third party applications he may have been using like MS Office etc… We can also pull original pictures back down from the cloud as well. We could also see when the last backup was and make a choice then as well.
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While having a good healthy time machine copy is my preference when transferring data, the cloud does work as a secondary backup. We’d just have to reinstall whatever third party applications he may have been using like MS Office etc… We can also pull original pictures back down from the cloud as well. We could also see when the last backup was and make a choice then as well.
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