Upcoming NMUG Presentation on Building a Modern Backup Strategy

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Originally published at: Upcoming NMUG Presentation on Building a Modern Backup Strategy - TidBITS

I’ve written extensively about backup strategies over the years, most recently in “It’s Time to Move On from Bootable Backups” (23 December 2024) and “Do You Use It? Backup Strategies Span the Gamut” (16 January 2025). I’ll be distilling the advice from those articles in a presentation for the Naples MacFriends User Group (NMUG), one of the most vibrant Mac user groups, so if the topic interests you, come to the free online meeting this Wednesday, 21 May 2025, at 11:30 AM EDT. To register for the talk and receive the Zoom connection details, fill out this form. I guarantee a unique performance that will ensure no one ever recruits me for a Gilbert & Sullivan piece.

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@ace I’m hoping that you will cover techniques for backing up cloud services that use Apple’s File Provider protocol.

@Shamino recommended Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC):

He also referred to this CCC Knowledge Base Topic:

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Please make sure to cover the fact that SuperDuper! does (and continues to) make bootable backups. It is the only program that does that. And the new version of SD, V3.10, improves upon that excellent program’s features.

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Signed up but was too late – hoping there might be a Zoom recording to share!

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It was a great presentation. Hopefully the video and slide will be availalbe to tidbits-talk. I hope the last slide has audio.

By the way, the presentation has me considering adding offsite backup via Backblaze. I’ll be asking some questions that, hopefully, Backblze subscribers can anwser.

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:clap: Excellent rendition of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Backup Strategy”…
Really good meeting, I learnt from it and will be re-watching parts of the recording on the the Naples website.

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Any chance we have access to the recording too? Would love to review and I see others here have mentioned their desire for recording access as well.

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The NMUG folks tell me that the recording is available only to members, but they have a 30-day trial membership with no strings or credit card attached.

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Hey, @ace - thanks for a useful presentation! In case you didn’t see from the chat, when you mentioned that you wished there was decent software for downloading Google Drive content, I mentioned DaisyDisk, which worked reasonably well for me when I needed to check the actual size of a Google account’s drive usage, and download an archive of all its content. It might work for you.

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I’m confused—how does DaisyDisk help with downloading Google Docs and Google Sheets in Office formats?

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I can’t recall whether @ace covered these considerations for backing up the System Photo Library in his NMUG presentation:

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I didn’t call it out specifically, but the same advice as for cloud-based files applies. Make sure Optimize Storage is OFF (so there are local copies), and then run standard backups.

I don’t recommend making manual copies of your Photos Library like the article does because I think that’s a recipe for future confusion.