{"id":20692,"date":"2018-02-23T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20692"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:28:03","slug":"practices-make-perfect-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/23\/practices-make-perfect-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Practices Make Perfect (Backups)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/blog\/index.php\/shadedgrey\/comments\/practices_make_perfect_backups\/\">Dave Nanian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/blog\/index.php\/shadedgrey\/comments\/practices_make_perfect_backups\/\"><p>If you need to store more than one backup on a physical device:<\/p><ul><li>If you&rsquo;re on 10.12 or earlier, partition the drive into the number of volumes you need to back up. So, three source volumes to back up? Three partitions on the backup drive.<\/li><li>If you&rsquo;re running 10.13 or later, format the backup drive as APFS, and use APFS&rsquo;s very flexible &ldquo;volumes&rdquo; as your backup destinations, one per source volume.<\/li><\/ul><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Having an archive volume is fine. Keep it separate from your backup volume. And back it up.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I truly believe you should never, ever use a network drive as your only backup. It&rsquo;s fine to have a network backup as a secondary backup. But by its very nature, it&rsquo;s going to be the least reliable one.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Remember, you should never rely on a single backup device, or a single backup program. No matter what you&rsquo;re using for your backups&#8230;use something else too.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>My daily backup is left unmounted but connected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dnanian\/status\/966699860253659136\">Dave Nanian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dnanian\/status\/966699860253659136\"><p>And speaking of &ldquo;don&rsquo;t cheap out, get a backup drive&rdquo;, these Seagate USB3 drives are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00TKFEEJ4\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">on sale<\/a>. 3TB for $76, 4TB for $100, 8TB for $150.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Nanian: If you need to store more than one backup on a physical device:If you&rsquo;re on 10.12 or earlier, partition the drive into the number of volumes you need to back up. So, three source volumes to back up? Three partitions on the backup drive.If you&rsquo;re running 10.13 or later, format the backup drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1395,146,30,1529,174,369],"class_list":["post-20692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-storage","tag-superduper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20693,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20692\/revisions\/20693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}