Tell me it's OK...

[JuliettePerkins]

As long as you have your working files on one EHD and your back-up files on another EHD, I think you're safe to delete them off your hard drive. Maybe have a stiff drink first!

I purposefully don't keep a single thing on my Mac Book Pro - everything is on one EHD. I've got three partitions - one for my time machine back up from the MBP, one for my stash, and one for all the zip files I download. I actually wonder if I ought to look at getting a second EHD reading this... My EHD and my hard drive are both fully backed up to Crash Plan...


I never thought I'd be this precious about digital files. ever.

 

[bestcee]

Does Backblaze back up EHD? I've had terrible luck with online back-up but haven't tried them.

Yes. They do. You just have to tell them to, and it's a super easy check box. And you just have to connect the ehd once every 30 days.

I've used back blaze quite happily, and I've also had to recover files accidentally deleted from them and it was easy. Chelle lost her computer and ended up having back blaze send her an ehd with all her stuff in it.
The part that sucks is the initial backup depending on your Internet speed.

Anyway, as long as you have a good backup system you are okay deleting. I'm going through that right now. I have stuff backed up to an ehd, and Back blaze. I just bought a 'little' 1.5tb ehd that's portable to keep my Digi stuff on so I can move it off my computer.

 

[Katherine B]

Make sure you move any tagged files from within the ACDSee program (i.e. don't move them in the mac equivalent of Windows Explorer). ACDSee will not like it!

So ... if I have ACDSee on my iMac and ACDSee on my MacBook Pro and all of my digital supplies on an EHD, so long as everything has been done within ACDSee, tagging, moving, etc., regardless of which system I'm on I will be able to see all of my tags, correct?

 

[pbrooks]

I'm using Backblaze and just purchased an EHD. I am going to set up Backblaze to backup my EHD as well.

I really like Backblaze. I read a couple of recommendations from one of the threads here in the forum.

 

[RebeccaH]

i am seriously horrible about backups. i have no real system to speak of. i have everything on my harddrive and an EHD. i have made a lame attempt at online backups. but like i said, i don't have a real system to speak of that triggers me to back up. I don't know if i have any real way of knowing whether i've actually captured everything i needed to capture in my backups. perhaps this is something i should revisit this summer (especially now that my upload & download speeds are running faster than a snails pace).

 

[bestcee]

i am seriously horrible about backups. i have no real system to speak of. i have everything on my harddrive and an EHD. i have made a lame attempt at online backups. but like i said, i don't have a real system to speak of that triggers me to back up. I don't know if i have any real way of knowing whether i've actually captured everything i needed to capture in my backups. perhaps this is something i should revisit this summer (especially now that my upload & download speeds are running faster than a snails pace).

I can only speak to backblaze, since that's what I use. I know I can go online and actually see my files there. I would think any good backup service has a way to check and see if your files are actually backed up. And it backs up everything except program and system files.

One of the reasons I went with backblaze is at the time it was one of the only ones that had unlimited backup, and does continuous backup. I would look for that feature in whichever service you choose. Continuous backup means it will backup as soon as your computer is connected to the Internet. It doesn't wait for a specific schedule.

Online backup should be easy for you and require very little thought once it's set up.

 

[jenevang]

So ... if I have ACDSee on my iMac and ACDSee on my MacBook Pro and all of my digital supplies on an EHD, so long as everything has been done within ACDSee, tagging, moving, etc., regardless of which system I'm on I will be able to see all of my tags, correct?

Bumping this b/c I don't know the answer. I don't use ACDSee.

 

[jenevang]

OH, and as an update. I have deleted almost all of my Digi Supplies off of my HD and I they sat in my trash bin for 3 days before I had to guts to press the EMPTY button

Now, I am getting Backblaze set up for my HD and those 2 EHD's that I now have everything on. I'm still hyperventilating a bit just thinking about pressing that button, hehe.

 

[bderby]

OH, and as an update. I have deleted almost all of my Digi Supplies off of my HD and I they sat in my trash bin for 3 days before I had to guts to press the EMPTY button

Way to go, Jen!!

 

[Katherine B]

OH, and as an update. I have deleted almost all of my Digi Supplies off of my HD and I they sat in my trash bin for 3 days before I had to guts to press the EMPTY button.

Yayy!

I'm getting ready to install Backblaze myself ... cRaZy price for unlimited storage! I'm going to be moving all of my digital supplies and photos to separate EHDs and then deleting them off of my HD, too. Thanks for the push, Jen!