Streaming and Data Services for Family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Actually they have no backups. If their phone is full, they are migrating the photos to that elderly hard drive and that’s the only copy.

Since they don’t have cloud data, they need two hard drives, replaced every 5 years at a minimum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

None of your phones of full? So you must be buying expensive phones with the maximum storage or you don’t have a wife and kids. They take so many pictures. I’m not spending the time to prune it down, but their phones fill so my options are to offload to 2 drives, or sync to cloud and back up that to a drive. (I do #2 but hate the costs but it’s trading money for time I don’t want to spend curating GBs of data).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

None of your phones of full? So you must be buying expensive phones with the maximum storage or you don’t have a wife and kids. They take so many pictures. I’m not spending the time to prune it down, but their phones fill so my options are to offload to 2 drives, or sync to cloud and back up that to a drive. (I do #2 but hate the costs but it’s trading money for time I don’t want to spend curating GBs of data).

Have a full family. Phones are not maximum storage size. Pictures are automatically moved to the Mac when the phone syncs with Mac (we never sync anything with iCloud).

Filters in photos app on the mac help us find the photos when needed. Photos that need to be on the phone permanently are in a separate folder inside Photos app on mac that is sync'd with phones. We sync with mac via wireless or sometimes with cables.

Not a lot of work if one merely syncs phones regularly with a mac. No idea about users with Windows, as we don't use that.

[Anonymous]

I pay for:

Netlix
Hulu
Apple TV
Amazon Prime
Peacock
HBO
YouTube Premium (ad free)
Spoitfy
2TB Apple Cloud

Kids have access to all of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

None of your phones of full? So you must be buying expensive phones with the maximum storage or you don’t have a wife and kids. They take so many pictures. I’m not spending the time to prune it down, but their phones fill so my options are to offload to 2 drives, or sync to cloud and back up that to a drive. (I do #2 but hate the costs but it’s trading money for time I don’t want to spend curating GBs of data).

Have a full family. Phones are not maximum storage size. Pictures are automatically moved to the Mac when the phone syncs with Mac (we never sync anything with iCloud).

Filters in photos app on the mac help us find the photos when needed. Photos that need to be on the phone permanently are in a separate folder inside Photos app on mac that is sync'd with phones. We sync with mac via wireless or sometimes with cables.

Not a lot of work if one merely syncs phones regularly with a mac. No idea about users with Windows, as we don't use that.

So it’s wireless — does it do in a daemon so they just need to be near the Mac to have it sync, or do they each have to login, launch iTunes, command a wireless sync? That is a nice setup if it’s the former. With a backup drive that syncs from the Mac it would be better than iCloud in my opinion