Hopefully there's something useful in what I've shared. Sorry, this was way more info than you asked for, but I like sharing the importance of having backups, and multiple types of backups, whenever possible. He said hard drives invariably fail at the worst time… and that he keeps at least 5 backups of his data! I talked with the developer of SuperDuper! during my attempts to restore the backups. Fortunately, my Time Machine backup came through and worked. It, too, had read errors and couldn't complete a restore. I switched to my alternatee SuperDuper! backup drive. No problem, I thought I'll just restore my SuperDuper! whole disk backup. or crazy overkill! Here's why I'm an advocate for multiple levels of backups.
SUPERDUPER RESTORE DOWNLOAD
(I have two hard drives which I rotate.) If my Mac is dead, restoring just from the cloud would take days to download all the data restoring from the hard drive will restore my data within an hour, and then my cloud backup can restore the much smaller amount of data changed since the whole drive backup.
SUPERDUPER RESTORE SOFTWARE
Additionally, every 6 months or so, I use SuperDuper! software to do a whole disk backup of each Mac to a hard drive, which I then store away from my home. But what if I have a fire/flood/robbery at my house? I pay for iDrive online backup, which runs nightly to backup anything changed on my two Macs to the Cloud. Time Machine backs up anything which changes on a Mac, every hour, without m e needing to do anything. I have a hard drive attached to my iMac, which I use to run Time Machine backups on both the iMac and my MacBook Pro. Once every few years I'll clean out some of the older backups, but still keep at least one backup per year.Īll those backups on my hard drive are great… but what if my hard drive or Mac die? I have three levels of backups. If I ever discover a data problem and I'm trying to track down when the problem occurred, or find the data prior to the problem, this gives me a history of backups. I keep these for a few years, so I have roughly monthly backups going back a few years. This generates backups outside the 50 maintained by Quicken. In addition, periodically - roughly once a month - I manually do Save a Backup in Quicken. My backups are about 25 MB, so 50 of them is just over 1 GB in size - not a significant amount of storage. That should generally insure I have at least a month, maybe two months of automatic backups. I have my backups set to retain 50 automatic backups. Please change this to a larger number! You can launch and quit Quicken more than 5 times in a week, sometimes in just a day or two. In Preferences, you can set how many automatic backups it should retain. Quicken makes automatic backups each time you quit the program (unless you turn this off in Quicken Preferences, which I hope no one does). There's no one "right" answer, but the key is having "enough" backups, and ideally multiple layers of backups. I can tell you what I do, which is pretty obsessive…
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