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Subject: [Leica] World of pain
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:39:35 -0400
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I have two timemachine backups--one at home and one at the office

for photos, i have all on external drives--one the primary (firewire) drive 
and the other (usb) just copies the primary with CarbonCopyCloner every time 
it's mounted.

ric



On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:34 AM, red735i at earthlink.net wrote:

> I know that everyone loves the concept of Raid Arrays....
> 
> But a simple question.....
> 
> Why use RAID HDD?  Why not simply buy a "few" external USB/Firwire HDD and 
> every night arrange for them to make incremental backups automatically?   
> They are available up to 2TB, cost about $100-200 each, and seem to be as 
> reliable as in-computer HDD.
> 
> Use 3 of them.. with every day another drive gets backed up, the other 2 
> being 1 or 2 days old in data......so you have a laddered backup strategy, 
> and quadruple redundancy.
> 
> ????
> 
> Frank, desperately grasping over the issue himself.....
> 
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