Originally Posted By LuLu I need to free up some disk space on my hard drive pronto. I have a large backup drive but use Silverkeeper software that makes my backup drive mirror my internal hard drive. I want to toss some old files on my hard drive but keep them on the backup disk. Can someone tell me how to do this? Do I need to create a separate partition on the backup, or something? I assume that if I delete them from my internal drive, they'll be deleted from the backup drive when it does its synchronize thing. Help!
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I have never used silverkeeper, but I would suggest backing up the files that you want to keep but not sync onto removable storage such as DVD or CD. Either that or get another smaller external drive (they are super cheap now) and back them up that way.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut as a bonus, there should be an option as far as "back up only" or "no sync" in the software. But again, I have never used it. I am probably the worst to provide back up advice though. I have thing spread out all over my computer its amazing I can find anything.
Originally Posted By LuLu LOL! I think I'll get another hard drive (more wires, just what I need!). That sounds like an easy solution for a "dummy" like me. Right after I order a big fat new Mac... I don't know what I'm doing there either, but my ex is advising me, he always loves to spend my money!
Originally Posted By LuLu OK I still have not bought my second backup drive for archive. I actually just started looking today and I have no idea what I want/need. This will be for data that I'm going to delete off my computer, so do I want a mirrored drive? Speed isn't too important as I won't be archiving files on a daily basis. Do I want RAID? I really don't know what this stuff even means... Here are two I'm looking at now: <a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/MirrorRAID/" target="_blank">http://eshop.macsales.com/shop /firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/MirrorRAID/</a> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ytq895" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ytq895</a> (Supposedly this iomega can be formatted as 2 x 500GB mirrored drives. Why is it $100 cheaper than the OWC tho?) TIA!
Originally Posted By LuLu Or, I could by 2 500GB My Books for less than either of those! I know that drive is recommended. I would just have to backup twice.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut there is a 1 TB my book and they seem to be getting cheaper by the day. The 1 tb hover around $365 and there is also a 2 TB my book if your looking for further back up down the road and it sits around the $750 mark. The bonus with the mirrored raid is that its a double back-up. So if oine of those drives failes than you have that one more piece of mind. I hve not trusted Iomega for some time now so my recommendation would be to NOT go with them if you go for the mirrored raid. Just my opinion.
Originally Posted By LuLu Thanks Nutty Buddy! Of course I'm still confused, but what else is new... I'll skip the Iomega - I know the previous incarnation got some bad user reviews, somehow the "experts" keep giving good reviews.
