[drewprops]

A friend is looking to do a better job of backing up his system files. I've made a chart of what I *think* he ought to do and I'm putting it out here for discussion and advice so that I can pass it along to him the next time we speak.


A copy of this diagram is available for download as an Adobe Illustrator CS2 file (click).

The basic idea is to:

• donate one 1TB drive toward making Time Machine backups of the computer's internal drive.
  
• create 2 different clone drives of the computer's internal drive and make backups in an alternating fashion, with off-site storage
  
• assign one 2TB drive to working files and media storage.
  
• create 2 different backup drives of that working files HDD and make backups to those drives in an alternating fashion, with off-site storage

Is this overkill?
Have I missed anything in this setup for my good friend who is my friend and not myself, at all, ever?


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[drewprops]

Shopping for enclosures now!!
(my friend, that is)


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[drewprops]

Ah, this diagram doesn't take into account a video-editing drive, separate from the other working files. I'm not enjoying being a system engineer, I may tell my friend he needs professional help.


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[alcimedes]

For $5 a month they can get an account with iDrive which would allow them to upload up to 150GB to an offsite location.

I'd do what you've proposed above, but have everything short of the massive video files backed up to an offsite location, in case of theft/fire etc.

[drewprops]

I was wondering about the cloud solution. Thanks Alci