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

[Jules]

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On 15/09/2011 11:49, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
> is there a page that describes this service Jules?
>
>
> On 15 Sep 2011, at 11:45, Jules wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>> nsca cscs, zhealth master trainer, rkcII, ck-fms, ikff ckt
>>>>
>>>> Reader, Agents Interaction and Complexity Group
>>>> Senior Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
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>>>> 8372
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>>>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mc <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Emc>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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>
>
> dr. m.c. schraefel, ph.d, f.bcs
> nsca cscs, zhealth master trainer, rkcII, ck-fms, ikff ckt
>
> Reader, Agents Interaction and Complexity Group
> Senior Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
> Electronics and Computer Science                 ph +44 (0) 23 8059 8372
> University of Southampton,fx +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
> Southampton, Hampshire, UK, SO17 1BJ
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mc <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Emc>
>

Jules

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