[Elecraft] <Long & OT> Data protection and recovery techniques

[Bill Frantz]

Being a Mac guy, I use "Time Machine". I do test it every once 
in a while when I recover a file, but having been in the 
computer industry for my career, I am generally careful enough 
that I don't have to recover files. (Knock on wood.)

I have the largest disk I could find at Costco as a backup disk 
sitting on my desk.

The real test comes when I buy an new computer and restore the 
entire backup to the new machine. That has worked through 
several new computers. The one time it didn't work, the old 
backup was so many no-longer-supported levels back, that the new 
machine didn't recognize it. However, with Time Machine, if you 
open the backup folder on the backup disk, you can dig down to a 
complete file system image that can just be copied. I like 
backup systems that are simple and don't try to do irreversible magic.

The other dimension of backup is several offsite disks. One is 
at a house nearby, and another is on the other coast. Whenever I 
travel to those locations, I make a backup. If everthing here 
goes up in smoke, I do have some recourse.

73 Bill AE6JV

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