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

[W2xj]

I backup into the cloud. When I get a new Mac, it restores automatically. 

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> On Jun 13, 2020, at 10:46 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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