![]() After one completes the full Time Machine backup (which will include a complete backup of all of your photos now in the Photos app), put it in one of those in the plastic cases and store it OFFSITE to protect against fire/theft/flood scenarios. Use both discs as Time Machine discs (free backup software on Mac), to backup the Mac mini to BOTH drives. Or, if you prefer, buy a relatively inexpensive enclosure for each bare drive and you won't need the plastic cases or bare drive dock. I suggest bare drives.īuy a Bare Drive HDD Dock and 2 Bare Drive plastic cases to store the 2 drives in when not in use. If Mac, they will be stored in the Photos app (free on Mac.)īuy yourself (I recommend) at least 2 HDDs at least 2X-4X bigger than the storage you get in the Mini. Yes, key is basically described in #4: get them downloaded to a computer (that Mac Mini if you like). External drive gets backed up to cloud backup service.Īdditional question would be: Can we each have a user account on the same machine, both logged in at the same time, so I can use the computer while her photos sync to her account in the background? Would this work? Mac Mini with external hard drive. I'd have to get an external hard drive for the Mac Mini. Then I could, if I wanted, have the Mac Mini backed up to a cloud backup service (Carbonite is what I use for my other computers). ![]() That way they would be in iCloud and on a device in our house. What I want to do is get a Mac Mini and have her photos sync to the Mac Mini. We don't have any Macs in the house, and iCloud for Windows sucks, so I'm considering getting a Mac. It's the only time we've heard of that happening, but it's enough to make us both paranoid. The problem is, one of our friends had an issue when she got a new phone where somehow tons of old photos that were supposedly saved in iCloud disappeared and Apple couldn't get them back. Currently they're all backed up to iCloud, which is great. My wife has hundreds of gigabytes of photos on her phone of our kids going back all the way to their births. And since I couldn't find any experts, I came here. I don't have much experience with Macs so I wanted to get the expert opinion. Good solution for those with < 200GB to backup.Ĭons: Essentially impractical for those with > 200GB to backup - poorly noted in website and advertisements.I have an idea that I'd like some feedback on.This is not practical for most and makes the claim of unlimited backup misleading at best. What they don't tell you until you look at the fine print is that they throttle your data after 200GB to a trickle: 100 kbps (kilobits per second) To backup 300 GB at this rate would take a year. While this is long, it may be worth it to have such a safe storage solution offsite. For a large 600GB collection this should take > 6 months. Up until 200GB, the program backed up about 3GB per day. Free oneself of the external hard drive which could be stolen or lost too!While accurate in many respects, this is not a practical service for any one with > 200GB to backup. Seems amazing for someone with 500GB accumulated photos and movies of the family. Hard drive intensive disk always running.Ĭarbonite say that their average customer have 5GB of backup.īy Anonymous reviewed on January 31, 2012Īdvertised as unlimited online backup for one fee. Pros: Unlimited Backup!Ĭons: Full up to date backup never possible due to slow upload speed. ![]() ![]() Carbonite works ok at first Carbonite customer service tell me now that their average customer has just 5GB of backup that works ok but if you have more than that like me they cut the upload band width to a unusable trickle. Well Carbonite Online Unlimited Backup not bad if your life is very short but if you have 80 Years or more of family pictures on your computer like myself you need a good reliable backup not Carbonite. I have been using Unlimited Online Backup now for over 12 Months and because of the throttling back of Car bonites Bandwidth when your backup becomes too large for them my awaiting backup gets larger I was 5GB from having full up to date backup after running the backup for 12 Months iMac on 24/7 but now its 30GB and rising so I had to uninstall it even though I paid for 3 Years.How does the advert go your life is on our computer back it up. ![]()
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