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To: abuelita who wrote (331745)	10/15/2020 6:21:17 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362386

As I understand it, Apple uses something called the Time Machine which is even better. And yes, the advice is the same. You need think about the balance between how much data you can afford to lose vs how much space you want to use. This doesn't have to be the same for everything or even linear in time. For example, say that you are writing a book. You may want to keep the latest 5 versions of the draft folder no matter how frequently you write. Then you may want to keep weekly and monthly backups for long term use. What you also want to do is think about how much headache you are willing to put up with during the retrieval time. I have backups of my emails going years back. They will be a pain to retrieve, but I am ok with that because I am not likely to need them often. On the other hand my business documents are backed up continuously and are easy to retrieve for up to 3 years. Then they get archived for longer term.