View single post by Robert

Posted: Mon Feb 11th, 2013 08:12

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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Hi Bob, Good you have sorted AND found an explanation for the Cs6 installation issue. Most of my computers have second partitions with backup OS's on. It gives me a fallback and also on some of them the ability to run Snow Leopard or earlier for the occasions I need to run 'obsolete' applications like MS Office 2003, a CAD application I have and also the ability on the earlier versions of Mail to bounce eMails, a very useful feature which despite protests, Apple have now dropped.

Regarding storage, I faced a similar dilemma a while back, I separated my files into types.

Backups of all my floppy disks, CD's and DVD's, together with every file I have from previous systems. That lot went onto one 500Gb drive and I call it my "Archive Drive".

Everything inc. research links, Word and other text files, all image files and documents connected with the book on another drive called "Botanic".

Two 1Tb drives which I alternate for my current use Time Machine" which gives me a backup and 'rewind' of my current data. I swap these drive with one usually at another location.

A 1 Tb RAID 0 drive which is my day to day data drive where all my current data is kept. The RAID 0 is for speed, two 500Gb drives interleaved for speed.

So I only keep active data on my day to day drive and all my infrequently used data is on separate drives and only a click of a switch away.

Everything is also backed up onto other drives and and the original disks are stored safely. I would say I have everything at least three times and some stuff many more than that.

Personally I wouldn't store any critical data on a proprietary system without very secure backup. The chances of recovering data from a disk crash in an array would be low and expensive.

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Robert.