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16 Nov 2013
The Time Machine Worst-Case Scenario
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about backup. Topics include Time Machine, the sadness of Time Capsule, SuperDuper, clonedrive (Wolf’s own software), CrashPlan, Backblaze, and Arq.
Links:
- Time Machine (OS X) « Wikipedia
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review, Mobile Time Machine « Ars Technica
- Finder 10.9 Disk Space Embellishment « rentzsch.tumblr.com
- Microsoft Outlook, Macintosh « Wikipedia
- Retrospect 10 and Instant Scan « Michael Tsai
- fts(3) Mac OS X Developer Tools Manual Page
- Time Machine Failure « rentzsch.tumblr.com
- using FSevents for backup - is it reliable enough? « lists.apple.com
- Wolf Rentzsch tweet: “Apparently accidentally deleted a bunch of files back in July and only realized today. <3 Time Machine”
- SuperDuper! « Shirt Pocket
- Carbon Copy Cloner « Bombich Software
- Voyager Q/S3 « NewerTech
- rentzsch/clonedrive « GitHub
- GUID Partition Table « Wikipedia
- CrashPlan
- Backblaze
- Dropbox
- Out of the picture: why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business « The Verge
- Arq « Haystack Software
- Amazon S3 « Amazon Web Services
- Amazon Glacier « Amazon Web Services
Rejected Episode Titles:
- You Have Secret Followup?
- Hungry for a Big, Empty Hard Drive
- It Was Lying to Me
- Time Capsule Is Such a Sad Story
- It Could Be Pure Apple
- Everyone Needs a Wifi Router
- If They’re Normals, What Are We?
- Eventually, Something Goes Wrong, All the Time
- Don’t Feel Like You Actually Have to Read It
- Whatever Cat That Was
- Stop the World for Me
- It Has the Magic Pocket Watch
- Enough Quirks and Failure Scenarios
- Don’t Put Your Eggs in the Time Capsule Basket
- RAID Is Not a Backup
- Past Me Had a Stroke or Something
- The Least Reliable Part of Your System
- Cocoa Copy Cloner
- I’m Amazed It Works
- All Backup Machismo
- Randomly Eating Its Backups
- It Wouldn’t Be an Edge Cases Episode If I Didn’t Write Some Code
- It Looks Like a Toaster
- Not What Dropbox Is For
- I Feel Kind of Bad for Normals
- They’re Not Doing It, and They’re Not Going to Do It
- If We Mention His Name Three Times, Will He Appear?