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Backups - The Necessary Evil
Here's my "environment".
I have 3 Apple machines - 1 iMac 1.25 G4 and 2 MBPs and several PCs All Apple machines connect to my home wireless (Linksys WRT54G Router) and I'm happy with the current configuration. I use the PCs to store backups of the others and don't really use them much any more so they don't figure into my backup strategy. I have my iMac "backed up" using TimeMachine to a G-drive. I don't have a bootable copy of the machine, which I really feel I DO need to have. I have a friend that just went through something that I don't ever want to experience and would like to be better prepared. I have been researching backup software and have seen much about SuperDuper. My questions are more hardware than software. If I acquire ONE sizable Firewire drive, can I use it to backup all three Apples? (I wouldn't mind moving the drive around to perform my backups.) If so, is there a recommended strategy? Should I partition it so each backup resides in its own partition? Or should I think about buying a firewire drive for each machine? Or should I consider getting a TimeCapsule and forget about the multiple firewire drives? What would you do if your were me? Help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -jP |
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