Hi everyone,
Could any of you give any advice on creating a basic backup strategy for 2 Macs and 3 PCs please? I have been tasked with organising a backup plan but I have no experience of anything other my own Mac's Time Machine. Available options we have are 2x Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB drives and a Voyager Q docking station. We do not have a budget to purchase other equipment, unless it's an inexpensive piece of backup software for example. We also have a 2TB wifi drive. I have a few basic questions, please let me know if you need to know anything else. 1. I've heard it is not recommended to backup more than one computer to a single drive. We may have to do this. What are the risks and how can they be mitigated? 2. Would it be most sensible to keep the Macs and PCs on separate drives? 3. I was planning to use the built-in Time Machine for the Macs (unless this is not possible to have more than one TM linked to one drive). Can you recommend the best backup software for PC backup, or is there a similar built-in application? 4. What is the optimum ratio of data to backup drive size? Any advice you can offer gratefully recieved. Cheers, Dan↧