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Faster backup solution?
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Be aware that syncing is not a backup (if you have not specifically set up one way sync). If something goes very wrong and you loose or corrupt data on the main machine corrupt files may be synced (or files deleted from the "backup" machine as well).
Just spent 3 hours today with my stepmom trying to tame the "backup" situation on her work computer (a Mac). I'm just going to dump the (somewhat angry) rant I wrote my wife on the way home on the train:
Also on the To-do for next meeting:
set up a password manager, as her current system of manually copying her passwords (all of them the exact same 5-letter word, followed by the exact same 4-digit year, followed by one of 5 symbols, rotated for "security") from last year's paper calendar to this year's paper calendar (with little or no notes about what they're actually for) is ... less than ideal.
install software (Eagle) to manage her ~600 GB collection of work image files, half of which are in folders in her Downloads folder, the other half living dangerously on that sketchy external drive, all of them in semi-randomly named folders with nothing even remotely resembling any sort of system.
copy the files on the current Rugged external drive to the new Rugged external drive so I can format the current one to a FS that can handle TimeMachine.
upgrade her OS so OneDrive can actually run, although I won't be using it for "backup", because:
setting up a proper cloud solution (B2) with proper backup software (Arq or Kopia) to make daily cloud backups of the primary external.
setting up her external drives (at that point two Rugged drives) so one does daily backups (CCC + TimeMachine), and the other does a weekly backup of the first one before getting locked in the safe, with primary also hosting all her images.
Wish me luck π
Oh wow, what a nightmare. So lucky she has you, I'm always a little sad thinking how awful it must (and apparently is) be for people who don't have resident nerd doing this kind of stuff for them.
Good luck!
Thank you π
I'm happy to help, and she wrote a very sweet message to say thanks, she was very happy π
And I'll be very pleased once we get it all sorted. I left her computer copying the files from that sketchy drive to the other one, so at least, until I go back, there should be a bit of redundancy π
Oooof, that's so scary. The problem is obviously that if nothing goes wrong now it'll confirm his believe that it was no big deal ...
Agreed, which is funny because he's an intelligent guy, and I wouldn't normally take him for someone who's fall for this type of confirmation bias, but tech is a blind spot.
Also, I think he sees me as someone who is overly cautious (for one thing, there are some differences in opinion about how my wife and I raise our kids), which probably means that because the warning about his IT setup is coming from me, it's already somewhat tainted by that.
* adult son is over reacting; take with grain of salt; roll eyes *