![]() A 16GB USB 2.0 flash drive as an OS X Recovery Drive.Carbon Copy Cloner app for backing up the iMac drives to the local NAS server.This is like having my own remote cloud server. An identical system to the one above, but located at a remote location and linked to the first one via the Internet.(1) Synology 214 DiskStation NAS (network-attached storage) server with (2) Western Digital 4TB Red drives configured as a single RAID0 (striped, non-redundant) disk group in a single 8TB volume for the local backup, connected to my iMac via Gigabit Ethernet.12TB non-redundant Time Machine storage, separate from the above, for versioned files.Īfter lots of research and testing, here’s what I’ve ended up with:.An identical server located at a remote location, replicated via the Internet daily and automatically from the local backup.8TB of usable, local backup storage, updated multiple times/day from my iMac’s internal and external drives.Time Machine by itself is not an adequate backup solution. Sure, I’ve got Time Machine, but I’ve had that completely fail on me and lost everything on the Time Capsule. Having a full backup here in the house makes that very easy. ![]() ![]() Otherwise I’d have both the old and new sets at home simultaneously (2) Although I’ve never had to recover from a major disaster like fire or theft, I have occasionally needed to recover a corrupted or accidentally deleted file. The other set I kept here at home for two reasons: (1) I’m actually paranoid enough that I wanted one set always off site (i.e., not in-transit) so I took a new set to the storage locker each month and only then retrieved the previous month’s set. Why two sets of removable backups? One set I kept off site in a storage locker. For the second level, I made two copies at the end of every month of each of my internal SSD and 2TB rotating drive to two pairs of portable USB drives. My first-level backup was from my iMac to an Apple Time Capsule via Time Machine. My backup strategy for the past three or four years was “pretty good”. This is a long blog post, but it thoroughly covers what I’m now using for backup and what I learned in the process of getting to the final result. Through it all shines a humility, quick wit, and down-to-earth style that make this book one you won't easily forget.I’m about to run out of disk storage for my Lightroom image catalog, so in preparation for a new iMac - one that supports a Thunderbolt disk system - I’ve decided it’s time to upgrade my backup systems. This inspiring autobiography takes you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world - and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. Gifted Hands is the riveting story of one man's secret for success, tested against daunting odds and driven by an incredible mindset that dares to take risks. Ben Carson holds twenty honorary doctorates and is the possessor of a long string of honors and awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, induction into the 'Great Blacks in Wax' Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and an invitation as Keynote Speaker at the 1997 President's National Prayer Breakfast. and finally, at age 33, the directorship of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. the University of Michigan Medical School. Trust in God, a relentless belief in his own capabilities, and sheer determination catapulted Ben from failing grades to the top of his class - and beyond to a Yale scholarship. But Sonya Carson convinced her son that he could make something of his life, even though everything around him said otherwise. And a pathological temper threatened to put him in jail. Raised in inner-city Detroit by a mother with a third grade education, Ben lacked motivation. He's been beating the odds since he was a child. But such breakthroughs aren't unusual for Ben Carson. Carson pioneered again in a rare procedure known as hemispherectomy, giving children without hope a second chance at life through a daring operation in which he literally removed one half of their brain. The extremely complex and delicate operation, five months in the planning and twenty-two hours in the execution, involved a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. ![]()
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