Friday, 10 July 2015

External Hard Drive and Backup plan... please give you opinion


hello,

first post here on forum, wonderful resource. hopefully, somehow can find way contribute wealth of knowledge here.

past year i've been working photos , videos stored on external hard drive (1tb). have 2 additional 1tb drives use time machine backups of (1) macbook , (2) 1tb external drive. every month rotate 2 time machine drives, storing 1 @ office. situation has seemed work me have problem i've filled 1tb storage allowance.

do?

#1 concern losing photos on external drive, cannot let happen.

thinking copy external 1tb 1tb using carbon copy cloner , keep 1 @ home , 1 @ office , should take care of 1tb have.

going forward have many choices, i'm thinking of buying 2 (2tb) external hard drives act rotating time machines 1 @ home , 1 @ office , starting new archive third 1tb drive have. problem (1) drive usb 2.0 , (2) wont match apperance of new 2tb drive on desk lame.

experts, do?

appreciated.
 

just let thing. overwrite oldest data newest saves.
 


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