It all depends on how long you want to keep back ups, and it's related to how you use your computer, it's unique to each user and their habits. If you bring a lot files on, videos, pics etc, process them, and then get rid of them, you'll need a much bigger backup than someone that does just internet and email for instance. I'd recommend 500G for a casual user. If you move a lot pics around 750G, if you do a lot of video 1T.
Of course you know you can select folders for Time Machine to not back up, such as folders that you use for example to process video. If you're processing a 4G video file for two hours, you don't need to have Time Machine backing it up every hour while it's being processed, and it would be backing up an unfinished copy anyway since it's still processing. Or if you're ripping a DVD to burn a backup to a DVD, no need to have Time Machine waste the space on backing up what you're going to burn to disc anyway.
Also there's the matter how long you want to keep back ups for. Like I said it's all a matter of personal preferences and computer habits.
It all depends on how long you want to keep back ups, and it's related to how you use your computer, it's unique to each user and their habits. If you bring a lot files on, videos, pics etc, process them, and then get rid of them, you'll need a much bigger backup than someone that does just internet and email for instance. I'd recommend 500G for a casual user. If you move a lot pics around 750G, if you do a lot of video 1T.
Of course you know you can select folders for Time Machine to not back up, such as folders that you use for example to process video. If you're processing a 4G video file for two hours, you don't need to have Time Machine backing it up every hour while it's being processed, and it would be backing up an unfinished copy anyway since it's still processing. Or if you're ripping a DVD to burn a backup to a DVD, no need to have Time Machine waste the space on backing up what you're going to burn to disc anyway.
Also there's the matter how long you want to keep back ups for. Like I said it's all a matter of personal preferences and computer habits.
I really don't care much for the back in time feature as I know my wa round a mac wuite wel and I can fiz many issues.
I just want to set itt up so I get periodic backup of my system that stays up to date not something that recalls every file I have/delete. just something that does a straight entire back up and keeps that up to date (e.g makes it identical to the macbook pro's current state) with the inter drive in my macbook pro. so theoretically that would be like 250-300 GB right?
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