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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.

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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?