In show #160 I think Dave mentioned that he does not know anyone who has restored with Apple backup. I have to testify that I have used it to restore my music library. It does suck that it does not clean up after it self and manage its own files. So when my backup drive gets full I delete everything, do a full and then let it do its thing from there. Also if I remember correctly John said he wants more granularity, and it provides that. The app is not fast, but its worked so far, but it could use some enhancements. I need to try another backup solution, but Mac Backup works right now, so it has not forced me to go to anything new.

Robert

trebor65@mac.com

After listening to the show and hearing that there is no nice/GUI way of editing a dictionary, I whipped one up and released it as freeware:
<http://www.pariahware.com/dictionaryeditor.php>

It is no-frills, but it gets the job done.

Kudos on realizing that it's good to have a BU drive for the garage in the house. A typical wiring fire, etc is not likely to take out both buildings.

You mentioned that it would take something on the magnitude of a meteorite strike to take out both buildings. Something that happened in my city when I was a child was an Air Force tanker plane crashed (clear across the county from the base). Of course this took out a line of buildings a few blocks long and most of a block wide. Even a single engine puddle jumper could take out a pair of buildings 100' apart.

This is not a likely event by any stretch, but it's far more likely than a meteor hitting. As always in risk management one needs to consider both the likelihood of the event and how critical the data is. If the data is truly critical I'd advise the offsite data be further away than the same property. For instance I live in tornado alley where a large funnel could take out both buildings. In the west a large fire could get both buildings. Where you live in the northeast a hurricane could maybe flood or blow away both buildings.