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Two methods:

- duplicity for daily backups to the S3 cloud encrypted with PGP (about 1GB in the bucket, excl. most photos)

- weekly Time Machine backups to two different alternating disks (one rotational, one SSD)

I've been backing up for ages. I used to use floppies. Then R/W CDROM. Then I switched to RAID. Then I switched to cloud. When I discovered how awesome time machine is when switching to a new mac, I started using that about 8 years ago.

Storing valuable data on site with physical media is just far too risky.

My critical docs are in a single folder. It is about 1GB of data. Mostly docs, but some really important audio, video, and image files.

My photos aren't considered critical (well, some are), so they are on the time machine backups.

Music is 100% Spotify.



Where does Time Machine backup to? Can you have it back up to S3 or similar? And what sets TM apart from other solutions (why is it "awesome")?




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