Apple Users

I use Time Machine in the usual way. I like it because I can recover a single file I may have hosed. I also used it to restore to a new (replacement) hard drive and lose nothing.

I also do two more backups once every 24 hours. I back my 1TB main hard drive to another 1TB drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. It creates a totally bootable drive. As both my boot drive and this back-up drive are in my MacPro, a drive failure would be nothing more than a minor annoyance and maybe loss of a day's work at most. Then Time Machine can fill that gap so my max exposure is really no more than 15 minutes' work!

I then do a second CCC backup across the ethers to my partner's office about 60 miles away. That's my disaster backup. I was also backing up the very same data to a 320GB drive, but it is now too small. This involves a VPN (I think). Someone set it up for us and it was way over my head.

We just bought a business account (100 GB) from SugarSync, but it is too small to be a total cloud storage solution. We only keep active files that we all need to access up there. It isn't a good back-up solution, in my view.

I am interested in these external 1TB and 2TB drives that allow access from the internet and wirelessly. That sounds like a really good solution. For disaster, put the actual drive in another physical location and back up over the internet.