Macworld - USA (2020-04)

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I

recall my first hard drive: 60MB (that’s

megabytes) for a mere $600. A

bargain! Now, a 6 terabyte drive—one

that stores 100,000 times more data—

costs as little as $100. The problem is no

longer storage, but backing up that

storage so that when (not if, sadly) your

drive fails, you have not lost precious

trillions of bytes of images and movies.

I’ve advocated a typical strategy for

years: make a nightly clone of your startup

volume for ease of fast recovery; have a

secured internet-hosted backup, at least

for critical documents; and swap two

How to create a backup strategy

with terabytes of files

As we take ever more photos and shoot more video, we have to think of

new ways to back the material up.

BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

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