{"id":111,"date":"2017-05-31T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/?p=111"},"modified":"2017-05-31T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:32:11","slug":"venus-gets-a-time-machine-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2017\/05\/31\/venus-gets-a-time-machine-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Gets a Time Machine Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve developed a very elaborate &#8212; but pretty reliable &#8212; backup strategy.  I keep all of my data on my file server.  It backs up, offsite, automatically, to CrashPlan throughout the day.  Once a month I make a backup to an external hard drive.  I&#8217;ve never focused on backing up my laptop, because all of my data is on the file server.  If something happened to my laptop, I wouldn&#8217;t be at risk of losing any documents, pictures, videos, or other personal files.  But I&#8217;ve recently come around to the fact that even though something happening to my laptop wouldn&#8217;t be the end of the world, it would certainly be an <em>annoyance<\/em> to have to re-install applications, get settings back to where they were, and hope there wasn&#8217;t one stray important file stored only on my laptop.  This recently weighed on me when I had to send my laptop in for service on short notice, and realized that anything could have happened to it in transit.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to start using Apple&#8217;s Time Machine backup software, and bought a Western Digital Elements 2TB external hard drive for this.  Time Machine is great because there&#8217;s very little configuration or setup needed, it &#8220;just works&#8221;. It backs up the entire laptop hard drive, so in the event of a catastrophic failure, you could use that drive to restore the entire machine as it was, either to the same laptop or to a different Mac.  And it also allows for retrieving data on a file-by-file basis, with full version history.<\/p>\n<p>My existing backup solution already made me feel confident in the safety of my important files, and now with Time Machine I also feel confident in the ability to restore my laptop itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve developed a very elaborate &#8212; but pretty reliable &#8212; backup strategy. I keep all of my data on my file server. It backs up, offsite, automatically, to CrashPlan throughout the day. Once a month I make a backup to an external hard drive. I&#8217;ve never focused on backing up my laptop, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}