Lost it all

[Charlie Stephens]

Originally Posted by 30 Closed Cab PU

Where does Time Machine back up to - Stick, External Hard Drive, Cloud?

I do not like using Cloud services.

My time machine backs up to an external hard drive (made by Lacie). It cost about $100 at the MAC Store and has a couple of terabytes of space. I needed one this large because I have a lot of photos and they take a lot of space. The time machine software was already loaded on my MAC when I bought it. I am actually considering also using cloud backup also to provide off site storage in case of disaster. When I say cloud backup I don't mean storing photos on a site like Photobucket, I mean a site that does a complete back of the entire computer (and you pay for it).

Charlie Stephens

[The Master Cylinder]

Originally Posted by 30 Closed Cab PU

Where does Time Machine back up to - Stick, External Hard Drive, Cloud?

I do not like using Cloud services.

Originally Posted by Charlie Stephens

My time machine backs up to an external hard drive (made by Lacie). It cost about $100 at the MAC Store and has a couple of terabytes of space..

Charlie Stephens

Yes, I have a 500 GB External Hard drive.

This from Apple:
To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you connect the device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.