Oh cool. I have my laptop on the desk a lot, plugged into the huge external monitor and the backup drive, so I get a LOT of backups happening.
If you're taking a lot of notes that never get backed up you might want to look at Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/), I've been using it lately and it's pretty awesome - autosyncs to remote servers, and has clients for Mac, Win, iPhone, and Android.
There is also the mid-range backup solution of an Airport Extreme; you can plug a big drive into it and use it as a TC. I even got one to do this but the one I got was flaky and wouldn't keep its settings. And was the only one on the shelves at the Best Buy down the street, so no exchange. (Also converting your backups appears to be a lengthy and slightly hackish process - direct connection puts files on the disc, remote connection jams them all in a dmg.)
Also having the backup means a full restore of EEVERYTHING to the new machine will be a simple matter of plugging it in and saying "yes" to the "this drive seems to have been used for backup, do you want to restore from it and associate it to this machine?" requester. Which was a PLEASANT SURPRISE.
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Date: 2011-03-03 03:49 pm (UTC)If you're taking a lot of notes that never get backed up you might want to look at Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/), I've been using it lately and it's pretty awesome - autosyncs to remote servers, and has clients for Mac, Win, iPhone, and Android.
There is also the mid-range backup solution of an Airport Extreme; you can plug a big drive into it and use it as a TC. I even got one to do this but the one I got was flaky and wouldn't keep its settings. And was the only one on the shelves at the Best Buy down the street, so no exchange. (Also converting your backups appears to be a lengthy and slightly hackish process - direct connection puts files on the disc, remote connection jams them all in a dmg.)
Also having the backup means a full restore of EEVERYTHING to the new machine will be a simple matter of plugging it in and saying "yes" to the "this drive seems to have been used for backup, do you want to restore from it and associate it to this machine?" requester. Which was a PLEASANT SURPRISE.