[OSX-Users] Re: backing up while on road away from time capsule

[Jules]

Lion will continue to do Time Machine backups to spare space on your 
laptop's own hard disk while it's away from its Time Capsule. Obviously 
this is no protection against disk failure, but it does provide 
protection against accidental file deletion or corruption.

Other than that, as other people say, copy important stuff elsewhere, 
e.g. memory stick, tiny external hard disk (WD My Passport disks are 
very good for this), cloud storage service, or your ECS home filestore.

(Why does everyone use Dropbox when we've had network file storage for 
over 20 years?)

J

On 15/09/2011 10:21, Chris Andrews wrote:
> To my knowledge, there is no elegant way of moving between a Time 
> Capsule and an external drive - for one thing, the TC backup is as a 
> sparse-bundled disk image where the drive backup is straight onto a 
> HFS+ volume. Probably best solution is just to back up important stuff 
> manually to memory sticks.
>
> Chris
>
> On Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 10:12, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
>
>> What's a strategy for maintaining a time machine back up while on the 
>> road?
>>
>> I used to just back up the laptop to a drive but of late have been 
>> using wireless timecapsule at home
>>
>> wondering what to do when travelling for considerable chunks?
>>
>> is there a way to move elegantly between an external drive and a 
>> Timecapsule?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> mc
>>
>>
>>
>> dr. m.c. schraefel, ph.d, f.bcs
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>>
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>>
>

Jules

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