<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Charles wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound really basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to backup their data. Is there a better solution than time machine? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and have a safe long weekend;</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Charles,</div><div><br></div><div>Please continue to use Time Machine and add as many strategies as you can ... more redundancy is better. This includes burning to CD or DVD, or just using flash drives.</div><div><br></div><div>Everyone feel free to add to this quick list :</div><br><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 17px; ">Disk to Disk</b> "cloning tools", so that you have an external hard drive exactly matching your computer's internal hard drive :</div><div><br></div><div>SuperDuper!<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html">http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html</a></span></div><div>Carbon Copy Cloner<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html">http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html</a></span></div><div>SilverKeeper<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/">http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 17px; ">Files and folders</b> ( not your entire hard drive, but specific files and folders ) to a remote location:</div><div><br></div><div>My Secure Backup<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://cranstoninc.com/mysecurebackup/">http://cranstoninc.com/mysecurebackup/</a></span></div><div>MobileMe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://me.com">http://me.com</a></div><div>Mozy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://mozy.com/">http://mozy.com/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 17px; ">Network backups</b> , for several office or home computers</div><div><br></div><div>Retrospect<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://www.retrospect.com/">http://www.retrospect.com/</a></span></div><div>BRU<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://www.tolisgroup.com/">http://www.tolisgroup.com/</a></span></div><div>TimeCapsule<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/">http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>