Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of using Time machine to back up photo files? I'm currently using Chronosync (but Time machine for non photo stuff), which is great but was wondering if I could simplify things by using Time machine for everything. Files are all stored on an external hard drive and backed up to others.
Tanks for any feed back,
Tom
I use both. I have a TM drive permanently connected, which backs up everything. At 0100 each morning, Chronosync wakes up and performs an off-site backup (to my father's iMac, in fact, about a mile away). I've recovered files from both backups (the remote before I had Time Machine working properly).
TM has the advantage of being hourly, so you never lose anything much, and allowing access to large numbers of old backups. I don't know if you could set up anything similar in Chronosync.
My solution would probably only work for low-volume backups. If I return from a trip with a few gigabytes of files (which, as an amateur snapper, I don't do very often) it can take a day or two to get the remote backup synchronised. I sometimes drop in and do it using my laptop and an ethernet connection.
FWIW, YMMV, PDSA, etc etc.
Jeremy