ladisc.blogg.se - Hard drive snapshot

With a regularly scheduled backup, you will have very good protection against the most common risks to your data. At minimum, we recommend regularly scheduled backups to a locally-attached hard drive. When you develop your backup strategy, consider all of the possible risks to your data and decide whether and how you will mitigate those risks. Having a backup on an external disk gives you protection against hardware failure. If your startup disk fails, all the snapshots in the world aren't going to help you restore your startup disk and data. Support for snapshots at the filesystem level is an important and integral component of a backup strategy, but snapshots are not a complete replacement for a true backup on physically separate hardware. tornado, hurricane, flood - loss of both original and backups)

An OS or software update that causes functionality regressions.

Accidental file deletion or modification.

There are several aspects of data protection that a backup aims to provide. The Role of Snapshots in a Comprehensive Data Protection Strategy Note: Snapshots are only available for APFS-formatted volumes. When you configure CCC to make regular snapshots of your APFS-formatted volumes, you can quickly restore older versions of your files. Once the snapshot is taken, each file within that snapshot will be available on the snapshot in its exact state at the moment that the snapshot was taken, even if you delete the file. A snapshot is a point-in-time representation of a volume on your hard drive. Snapshots are a feature of Apple's APFS filesystem.