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Brotato · 03-12-2012, 07:03 PM

Hi CP,

I thought I would ask you all about how you backup your/spouse's mac backup regement.

I have my wife's macbook backing up to a timemachine server on my NAS, which I also backup my PC to. However, I also backup my critical files (My Docs / Pictures) to Amazon's S3 in addition to the NAS. My thought pattern for my PC was "If I lose an HDD, I have a backup in the basement. If the house goes up in smoke, I have a backup on the CLOOOUUUUUUUUUD".

However I recently realized that irreplacable baby pics are on my wife's macbook. While I am okay if her disk craters with the timemachine backup on the NAS, I am up crap creek if the house burns down.

I thought I would just add a network drive to my PC for the timemachine server on the NAS and add that to my S3 upload, but I can't see it on my PC, nor can I even find out where it's store in UNIX-land on the NAS.

So what I think I want to do, poor man style, is find a piece of (hopefully free) software that would run on my wife's macbook and backup her mac stuff to either my PC or a findable folder on the NAS, which I could then add to my S3 upload rotation...

What are the rest of you doing for offsite macbackups?

03-12-2012, 07:03 PM	#1
Brotato Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Dec 2011 Exp:	Mac Backups Hi CP, I thought I would ask you all about how you backup your/spouse's mac backup regement. I have my wife's macbook backing up to a timemachine server on my NAS, which I also backup my PC to. However, I also backup my critical files (My Docs / Pictures) to Amazon's S3 in addition to the NAS. My thought pattern for my PC was "If I lose an HDD, I have a backup in the basement. If the house goes up in smoke, I have a backup on the CLOOOUUUUUUUUUD". However I recently realized that irreplacable baby pics are on my wife's macbook. While I am okay if her disk craters with the timemachine backup on the NAS, I am up crap creek if the house burns down. I thought I would just add a network drive to my PC for the timemachine server on the NAS and add that to my S3 upload, but I can't see it on my PC, nor can I even find out where it's store in UNIX-land on the NAS. So what I think I want to do, poor man style, is find a piece of (hopefully free) software that would run on my wife's macbook and backup her mac stuff to either my PC or a findable folder on the NAS, which I could then add to my S3 upload rotation... What are the rest of you doing for offsite macbackups?