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Hi all,
I have Macbook, with a 1TB hard drive, a 1TB external hard drive with additional data on, and a 2TB external hard drive, which is partitioned into 2x 1TB parts. The first half is used to back up the Mac, using Time Machine. The second half is used to back up the 1TB external hard drive, just copy and pasted.
I am heading to India for a bit, so would like to leave a backup with my brother in the UK (he will connect it to a laptop/server, so will be connected to the internet), which I can update every now and then. I have a second 2TB external hard drive for this.
What is the best way to do this? Can I use Time Machine over the net to back up the Mac? Can I use Crashplan to remotely backup the 1TB hard drive?
Ta,
Duane
If your router supports it you could VPN back to home and then backup to a device on your home network to run time machine. That would mean that device either advertises it as a time machine backup or you mount it as a drive some how.
The other option is to look at some online backup solutions as going across the net and down someones broadband won't be the quickest.
No personal experience, but a colleague recommended this to me the other day.
https://www.code42.com/crashplan/
Back up what's important then setup a cloud service for what you add out there. No real point in doing backups of what won't change. I just Dropbox or Google drive pics etc.
Thanks all.
I imagine I will be taking loads of pics/vids out there, so will be creating lots of new data.
What I think I'll do is get Dropbox Pro or something similar for backing up the data I create out there. Back up existing data from my Mac and external hard drive (ie create a copy of my 2TB hard drive), to the second 2TB harddrive, and leave that in the UK.
Is it just photos? If so, why not just use the iCould photo backup as it works really well?
Rachel
just use backblaze - back it up before leaving the UK and then it will catch any incremental file changes in India. I think it's about £40 for a year of unlimited backups and it works really well.