{"id":31312,"date":"2021-01-13T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31312"},"modified":"2021-01-26T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:14:35","slug":"2021-backup-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/13\/2021-backup-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Backup Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2021\/1\/backup-2021\">David Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2021\/1\/backup-2021\"><p>At any particular time, there is a curve for hard drive storage in price. Ideally, you want your backup to fit within that sweet spot where it can be contained on an affordable drive. If you have more data to back up than will fit on the current affordable drive capacity, you&rsquo;ll need to split your data or look at a more complex NAS system. One of the reasons I spent time ditching files was so I could keep it simple. My data needs are just under 5TB right now, and there are several affordable 5TB storage options. I&rsquo;ve bought three separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seagate-Touch-External-Hard-Drive-dp-B08GRFZ2KD\/dp\/B08GRFZ2KD\/ref=dp_ob_title_ce\">Seagate portable 5TB drives<\/a>. They are small and light, and they are USB-powered.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I&rsquo;ve heard from some readers that mounting drives under the desk leads to unwanted vibration. I think I dodged this bullet because I mount them with attachable Velcro tape. The drives are so light that the Velcro is fine to hold them, and it offers a buffer. Either way, they are entirely unnoticeable when working on top of the desk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0168N33EM\/\">GO-Oblong Cable Organizer<\/a> and a similar box from IKEA to contain my USB hub and various bus-powered drives on my desk. But I really like this idea for freeing up more desk space by putting them underneath. Unfortunately, I still rely on higher capacity 3.5-inch hard drives for some auxiliary storage, and Time Machine and bare 3.5-inch drives for most of my clones. Those go in drive docks that would need to stay on top.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"id-2021-backup-strategy-update-2021-01-26\">Update (2021-01-26): <a href=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2021\/01\/myself-and-a-shelf\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2021\/01\/myself-and-a-shelf\/\">\n<p>But this week I got both of my external disks&mdash;one for Time Machine and the other for a nightly backup&mdash;off the top of my desk and down underneath it. I went with a more prosaic solution: a shelf.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sparks: At any particular time, there is a curve for hard drive storage in price. Ideally, you want your backup to fit within that sweet spot where it can be contained on an affordable drive. If you have more data to back up than will fit on the current affordable drive capacity, you&rsquo;ll need [&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":"2021-01-13T20:32:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"5c12fe28-e004-4562-8282-7e21cbbd2c7e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-26T21:14:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXBL-KOAERWKCgn4hy70sfg","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":[2],"tags":[146,30,174,175],"class_list":["post-31312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-storage","tag-usb"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312","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=31312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31449,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312\/revisions\/31449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}