I have looked at CCloner but just don’t understand the explanations. On our end, SuperDuper will not be compatible with Big Sur on day of release. If I restore from the backup, it forces me to download the all the apps from instead of being able to restore from the local hard drive. But with caps, and the meter always running, it’s a huge burden. Downloading the same OS and apps over and over again just gobble up the bandwidth which I don’t have (and, frankly, can’t afford). It’s as though I never put it on the machine. Or… if I try out a new program and decide I don’t like it, if I can go replace the whole image with a clean one, I have no trace or stubs leftover. When I just delete, I find there is a lot of “stuff” left behind that I just can’t find and delete. So when I’m done editing, I like to revert to a “clean” OS and start over. The files are enormous (as you would expect). I’m working a lot with iMovie and old VHS home videotapes I have from 20-30 years ago. So repeatedly downloading from the Internet is why I keep wanting image back-ups. Here’s why I want the boo table disk image. Thank you very much for all the interesting replies. But how much are all your memories and other data worth? To me, they are worth the cost of paying for a proper backup. I put Backblaze on my daughter’s MacBook Pro (she had Carbonite, but it stopped working, so I cancelled it and we switched to Backblaze).Ī PC/Mac and its operating system and apps can be quickly re-installed and are “cheap”. I use Carbonite, on my PC, in addition to syncing my files to HiDrive (European, GDPR equivalent to OneDrive, iCloud etc.), a separate HDD and to my NAS which get synced daily at a fixed time. Some cloud services, like OneDrive (I don’t know about iCloud) do keep multiple versions available, but I still wouldn’t trust them 100% as a backup. If you get hit by cryto malware, for example, or you corrupt a file or delete it, you can’t get it back from a cloud sync, because the copy in the cloud has been encrypted, synced or deleted as well. Even if it is synced to the cloud, as opposed to backed up to the cloud (the former keeps the copy in the cloud in sync with what is on the PC and is not a backup, the latter is a distinct copy (usually with multiple revisions)). It is your data, more than a boot image that is important.
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