Best way to back up your data

Which is the fastest and best way to back up your data in case of any problem ? Still to transfer to an external HD ?
Thanks

Hi Ferro;
Best and simplest way to back up is Time Machine to an external drive.
I think that any backup plan should alway be to an external drive. If you backup to an internal drive and the Mac fails, what good is your backup then?
Allan

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What is considered "Best Practices" for the method of saving different versions of your APEX application as you are developing, so that you can go back to that version if something goes wrong?
APEX allows you to Export/Import as well as to copy the application to the same workspace. Which technique is best, or should I do both?
Clearly the Export allows you to save the app to a different location, but if you're not going to deploy it elsewhere, is that necessary? On the other hand, Exporting lets you get the backup out of your workspace, making it less cluttered. Any ideas on this?
I use ver 3.1

It sounds more complicated than it is. Subscribing allows you to keep logic (templates, lists, lovs) in one application and make sweeping changes across all applications which subscribe. It is good for companies that want a consistent look and feel across all applications.
Picture in your Region template you put a logo in the top left hand corner and you have 30 Apex applications in your environment that all look the same. The marketing geniuses at your company decide that the best way to overhaul a company is by changing the logo and now you have to change all the pages to use this new logo. Instead of the http://company/url.jpg your pages pointed at, you now need to repoint every url to http://company/new_logo.jpg.
If you use subscriptions, you can change the Region template once in the "master" application, and all applications which subscribe to that Region template automatically get updated. Maybe not the most realistic example, but it is pretty powerful.
Basically its like an include in other scripting languages where you can include a template - this allows you to change the template once and have all the child apps get the updated template.

Best way to back out data changes after a release

Hi,
I'm trying to decide on the best way to backup some production data in case a release fails and we need to roll back the changes. This would be for data updates only, not schema changes. We have extremely limited access to production, and another team handles all the RMAN backups. The people who actually implement our releases are also pretty prone to mistakes.
I have thought of two options. The tables we want to backup are about 9 MB total in size (it's about 10 codes tables).
1. Create a bu table for each of the tables before the release. So for JENNSTABLE, we would create a JENNSTABLE_BU using CTAS. If we need to revert, we can drop JENNSTABLE and rename the JENNSTABLE_BU accordingly. The bu table would remain in production until the next release, where it would be reused again. This would be really easy to script and therefore avoid any mistakes by the production support team who implements our instructions. We would also be able to determine what values changed by querying the bu table at any time (currently old values are not retained anywhere).
2. Use datapump to export the 10 tables, then truncate the tables and import the previously created files to restore the original data. I'm hesitant to use this method because I've never used datapump before, and as we don't have access to the servers, creating file system files makes me a little nervous. If I used a bu table, I can logon to the database and at least tell if it exists.
Are there any preferred methods for doing this (besides restoring a table w/ RMAN)? Is there a best practice? Any advice is appreciated!
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Oracle 10g
UNIX Solaris

Hi sb92075,
That's a good suggestion. FLASHBACK_ON is set to no on my database, but if I understand correctly, I can still do a FLASHBACK TABLE and the undo data would be used. Is that correct?
My concerns w/ using Flashback are ..
1) The client might decide to rollback the changes a week after they've been executed. The undo data might not be available and the flashback would fail.
2) If any of the following processes are part of the release, the flashback wouldn't work:
"The following DDL operations change the structure of a table, so that you cannot subsequently use the TO SCN or TO TIMESTAMP clause to flash the table back to a time preceding the operation: upgrading, moving, or truncating a table; adding a constraint to a table, adding a table to a cluster; modifying or dropping a column; adding, dropping, merging, splitting, coalescing, or truncating a partition or subpartition (with the exception of adding a range partition)."
Can you address those two issues? Thanks so much for taking the time to respond! This forum has helped me immensely with my work.
-Jenn

What's the best way to back up laptop?

Hi all,
This is probably a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. What's the best way to back up a laptop: hooking up a hard drive manually, or via WiFi?
In the past, I've just hooked up a hard drive to my MacBook Pro, and manually synced it with Time Machine. But, of course, sometimes I'm busy and I don't get around to doing that as faithfully as I should. So, I'm thinking of hooking up a hard drive to my AirPort so that my laptop will automatically sync over WiFi whenever I'm home.
Before I do that, however, two questions:
1) Is that easier to do than the way I'm currently backing up? Or are there problems with that route that I'm not foreseeing right now? How do you all back up your laptops?
2) I also have a Mac Pro on my network at home. Will I have a problem with my Mac Pro seeing the WiFi "Time Machine" hard drive and wanting to back up to it, rather than the Time Machine hard drive I already have physically hooked up to it?
Thanks for your advice!

learn about backups VS. archives, and data protection:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
excerpt:
Four words: "compartmentalized autonomous redundancy of data" or C.A.R.D. What this means regarding your data is “centralize it, isolate it, and multiply it”. This easy acronym to remember about how to approach your data is a great first approach to keep in mind.
Compartmentalized: separating out your data from your system files, centralizing all static and active files into a location or two to make backups, and archived data easier to update and locate. Centralizing your data collection is the primary hazard to overcome for what usually is the case of data that is scattered everywhere throughout your internal hard drive.
Autonomous: Isolation of data from changes, theft, decentralizing data to safes, fire boxes, offsite and online locations. Importantly ‘freezing’ data onto independent storage media for protection and from alterations, such as DVDs, hard drives, and online encrypted files, or .DMG created files of static data collections.
Redundancy: making copies of all autonomous isolated data such that data is decentralized not only in place and in media storage type (DVD, HD, online) for safety and protection as a failsafe, but each aspect of that failsafe has at the very least two redundant copies.
Data: all files made, saved, created, modified or working on. Important pictures, documents, videos, PDF, financial, personal. Any data large or small which you would not dare lose, which is private, important, hard or impossible to recreate, or most importantly, would take tremendous time to regenerate. Essentially anything important to you, your company, your loved ones (will, medical records, financial information, etc.), friends or otherwise.

What's the best way to back up to the cloud?

I am going to be traveling in the on a boat in Europe. Access to wifi could be limited and slow. I want to back up my photos and catalog to the cloud as there is potental to lose laptop and external drive. Since I have a 25 mp camera and will be shooting in Raw allot, there will be some big files as each photo could be around 27 gb.
All of my files will be in the My pictures folder LR set up when I set up my new catalog. I planned to back up these folders to the cloud, then send just the new folders each time I add them to LR during import. Then I was going to have the catalog BK that is created each time you close LR (just the data only is in this file) sent to the cloud as well.
Then if my laptop is lost I can copy the back up catalog (just the data file) and the My Pictures file that has all my photos in folders to a new laptop and restore my catalog. I'm told by Adobe help that this won't work as the connection between the photos and the catalog back up will be lost.
Is this correct? And if so, what's a better method.

Thanks Jim, and yes I meant 27 mb. Will be living on a sail boat so there is potential to lose both the laptop and external drive. The cloud was to be my 3rd copy
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You really have images that are 27 GB each? I suspect you meant 27 MB. But, even then, I think cloud backup might be cumbersome. I would suggest carrying a small external hard drive. I have a 1 TB USB 3 drive that is really fast and very small. No external power supply. Plug it in, and copy the files. That's what I would do.
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What is the best way to back up my photo's in iPhoto?

What is the best way to back up my photo's in iPhoto?
I have used an external hard disk which doesn't work very well.
Can anybody explain to me how I can use Time Machine? Or is there another simple way?
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Marja Meijer

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A File History backup archive whether TimeMachine which is fine I agree to use CCC as primary but I also like something else or combination, one for system, one for data. And multiple sets. And even then I have needed to go and find a file version or something and glad I had online backup of something besides a once a week clone, which would not have helped me.
TimeMachine 101
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

I have an intel iMac OS X 10.8.3 and haven't yet backed up anything. Please advice on best ways of backing up everything before it's too late - external drive etc.

I have in Intel iMac OS X 10.8.3 and haven't yet backed up anything. Please advise on best ways of backing up everything (external drive etc?) before it's too late.

Buy any external hard drive - USB/Firewire/Thunderbolt, etc that is compatible with your Mac. Opinions will vary, but I use Western Digital externals without problem, others will suggest LaCie, but there are no shortage of other manufacturers making equally good drives, I'm sure. It's preferable to buy a drive that is equal to the size of your internal HD, some will say twice the size. Mine are less than the size of my internal HD, but I don't have masses of data.
The simple and free option is to then connect the drive to the Mac and turn on Time Machine. Leave the drive permanently connected and it will backup your data regularly.
An alternative, and my preferred option is to use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to make regular bootable clones of your drive. Some (me included) keep multiple backups - clones and TMachine.
When I had my HD replace recently I re-installed from the clone and was back where I left off in around an hour.

Best Way to Back Up iMovie?

What's the best way to back up iMovie? Copy the entire folder to an external hard drive? Or just the application itself? Someone at the Apple Store said that with newer iPhoto and iMovie you just copy the application itself and that includes all your data. Is that correct?
Thanks.

If you projects and events are on the internal drive, you will need to back up the Movies/iMovie Projects folder and the Movies/iMovie Events folder.
You can either do this through Apple's Time Machine or by simply copying the files. Time Machine is good because it is automatic.
If you projects and events are on an external drive, you need to back up the iMovie Projects folder and the iMovie Events folder on the external drive.
If you create camera archives when importing, be sure to back up your archive files as well.
Video Event files get very large, so it can take a lot of storage space to back them up.
There are two reasons to back up...
1) To protect against hard drive crash
2) To protect against disaster like fire or theft.
Time Machine is great for number one. For #2, you need storage off-site.
For #2, I use Crashplan so I have automated backup to an external site.
Currently, I backup my projects and archives to Crashplan, and will recreate my events from the archives in the event of a disaster. However, there are several events which I do back up to CrashPlan because they are from older tape cameras that I do not have an archive for. Crashplan automatically updates over the internet. Because video files are so large, I used their service which lets you send them your initial 1TB upload on a hard drive. Then subsequent incremental changes are done online.

What is the best way to back up my imac

I am new to using an imac and wondered what is the best way to back the data up? Can I back it up to the cloud and if so how do I do this?

The first response pretty much covers it. Time Machine is a great backup for restoring individual files or folders. It can also be used as a full system restore, but you cannot boot from a TM backup and run the computer from it. You can do that from a clone, which can be useful should your hard drive fail utterly.
I have a TM backup on one external drive, and I use bus powered portable external drives for clones. I like thes as I can keep one offsite, and another one stays at home, but is in the firesafe except when being updated.
The two main cloning apps are Shirt Pocket Software's SuperDuper, and Bombich softeware's CarbonCopyCloner, both very reasonably priced. Note that CCC will work over a network, while SuperDuper will not - other than that they have very similar features, including automatic update scheduling.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/
Of course you can buy drives at all sorts of places (Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect,...) but a good place that services Apple computer users specifically is Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com/) who also sell some very good quality drives and external enclosures.

Best way to back up to the cloud

So far I have backed up my Mac to iDisk using MobileMe, but since it is going away, and since my MacBook was 4+ years old, I bought a new MacBook pro with lion. What are my choices for backing up to the cloud, since iCloud won't back up my documents with some exceptions?
Dropbox?
Something else?
I also back up to an external HD using time machine.

Thanks Jim, and yes I meant 27 mb. Will be living on a sail boat so there is potential to lose both the laptop and external drive. The cloud was to be my 3rd copy
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You really have images that are 27 GB each? I suspect you meant 27 MB. But, even then, I think cloud backup might be cumbersome. I would suggest carrying a small external hard drive. I have a 1 TB USB 3 drive that is really fast and very small. No external power supply. Plug it in, and copy the files. That's what I would do.
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Which is best way to back an iMac?

Which is best way to back an iMac? I have lots of photos and videos on my iMac TIme Capsule or hard drive. I would like to take photos and videos off my iMac but would easy access to them.

steve359 wrote:
CCC stores a "base image", then its incremental backups are stores in separate folders that you would have to search for specific files. If different files were "last changed" on different days, you may have to search different days "incremental folders" to get all files.
Because of this CCC is "managed" ... you cannot fully control how backups are made or where files are stored. And TimeMachine eventually deletes "incremental folders" as they get too old, so it is "managed" as well.
If you have full sets of files you want saved "as a specificslly formatted set", I would do it in another eternal drive that *I* manage as a set of folders.
This is totally 100% incorrect. What you described here is more or less Time Machine, not CCC. CCC is a standard backup program. It does not, I repeat, NOT, create incremental dated backups. While you can save what gets replaced by date archived directories that is not the intent of CCC. It's intent is to have a exact disk image, folder-for-folder, file-for-file, of the source. Under option it just stuffs the files it replaces in a folder.
And you switch what your are taking about halfway through your post to TM.

What is the best way to back up itunes library

I have my imac time machine program set to back up my computer every day to an external hard drive. I recently updated itunes and I lost some of my songs. I tried to find them in time machine but I couldn't find them. itunes support was good and I was able to download them again but I'm wondering what is the best way to back up my songs so I don't have to ask to download them again. I have a lot of podcast that I don't want to keep hard copies of they aren't as important to me.
As of now I have all the songs burned to a music cd but I just want to know if others think that time machine isn't the best back up for itunes and the cd's are the way to go.
Thanks for the help.

see _*The Complete Guide to Backing Up your iTunes Library*_.
JGG

Best Ways to Back-Up (I work as a freelance/consultant)

Hello,
I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are on the best ways to back-up their computer.
I currently have one external drive dedicated to Time Machine and another (older) external drive that is a compilation of thousands of documents from old computers over the years.
I'm pretty sure my methods aren't great...
What are your thoughts?
Thank you,
Lindsay

Make a partition on your external HD that matches the size of your internal drive.
Then use an application like Carbon Copy Cloner to make an identical clone of your drive.
The first time this will take some time, but if you keep it up daily it only clones the changes made on your HD. It's great and you can even use the external drive as a boot disk on another mac if your computer ever dies/breaks down.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
I do it like this myself and i have other partitions to store music and files i backup manually but thats all optional. Carbon copy cloner also gives you the option to only backup certain files and folders you select.

Best way to transfer internal HD data in Mavericks to Mac with Yosemite ?

Hello,
I'm using a 2007 iMac with Mavericks and will be getting a new one which will presumably come with Yosemite installed. What's the best way to transfer all the data from my internal HD on the old system, to the new one ?
I use SuperDuper to make backups to external HD's, so if I make a bootable copy of the mac HD to an ext HD using SuperDuper, will everything function fine despite the different OS's ?
Thanks,
Matrose.

You can make a bootable copy of your system now, but you won't be able to boot from it with the new computer. They are not usually backwards compatible with the OS. But when you first boot into the new system, use SetUp Assistant to migrate the data from the cloned copy. That will work just fine.

Advice on best way to back up

Hey I currently have an imac with 750gb and have gone over that so also have a 1TB WD external for extra stuff but Id like to back everything up using time machine - for this I have a 1TB Time Capsule and plugged into that I have a 250gb WD external drive - now obviously can only back up the first 1TB onto the time capsule so then what is the best way to back up the rest to the 250?
Any advice would be appreciated, cheers

Several comments.
Time Machine will backup an entire system (subject to exclusions you choose) to a single Time Capsule drive.
In your setup Time Capsule will be configured backup up to either the 250GB device (a non-starter) or the TC's 1GB drive.
A rule of thumb for Time Machine is to have twice the storage on the backup drive as the the storage used on the source device to allow it to accumulate the historical backups. It is quite efficient but the space used does grow and how fast depends very much on what you are backing up - how frequently things change and how much 'turnover' there is in your files.
Depending on how much of the 750GB internal and 1TB external is actually used you may out of luck using just Time Machine.
At the moment your maximum capacity of sources far exceeds the maximum capacity of backup destinations.

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