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From: Steve Hodgson on 22 Mar 2010 16:12
On 2010-03-22 13:14:30 +0000, Steve said:

> Does anyone have any recommendations for an external backup drive? I'd
> like something fairly cheap, quiet in operation.

After looking at some of the reviews online I think I favour the
Western Digital MyBook range. Is it possible to run these connected to
the USB on an Airport Extreme?
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From: Mark Ingle on 22 Mar 2010 18:20
Steve <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I think my plan would be to use SuperDuper! rather than Time Machine,
> but that's based on prejudice rather than any real knowledge. The aim
> would be to have an overnight bootable backup created automatically.
>
I've partitioned my external drive and use both (Time Machine and Carbon
Copy Cloner). I only do the Carbon Copy clones every couple of months;
it may be a bit OTT but I find it reassuring to be able to quickly boot
from the external drive should a major problem occur at the wrong
moment.
From: J. J. Lodder on 22 Mar 2010 19:00
Mark Ingle <markinglenospam(a)nospamfastmail.fm> wrote:

> Steve <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think my plan would be to use SuperDuper! rather than Time Machine,
> > but that's based on prejudice rather than any real knowledge. The aim
> > would be to have an overnight bootable backup created automatically.
> >
> I've partitioned my external drive and use both (Time Machine and Carbon
> Copy Cloner). I only do the Carbon Copy clones every couple of months;
> it may be a bit OTT but I find it reassuring to be able to quickly boot
> from the external drive should a major problem occur at the wrong
> moment.

Why not every night, if the drive is mounted anyway?

Jan
From: Woody on 23 Mar 2010 04:55
Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2010-03-22 14:00:25 +0000, Woody said:
>
> > Steve <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone have any recommendations for an external backup drive? I'd
> >> like something fairly cheap, quiet in operation.
> >>
> >> I think my plan would be to use SuperDuper! rather than Time Machine,
> >> but that's based on prejudice rather than any real knowledge. The aim
> >> would be to have an overnight bootable backup created automatically.
> >
> > I don't know about SuperDuper but I would assume it can the same as Time
> > Machine. I just picked up a cheap 1TB external firewire for �90 last
> > year, turned on time machine and now have a set of backups from then
>
> What drive did you go for. I really like the look of the G-Tech drives
> but there seems plenty of choice.

It was a western digital. I just happened to be in PCWorld (there is one
over the road from my work) and they had a 1TB firewire, it was the
first time I had seen one under �100 so I got it.
It seems a good choice, it is quiet and tucks round the back of the
iMac, giving me a firewire passthrough connector.


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Woody
From: Hugh Browton on 23 Mar 2010 06:20
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:56:03 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote
(in article <1jfrf5j.1itfwf2npi19xN(a)de-ster.xs4all.nl>):

> Steve <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for an external backup drive? I'd
>> like something fairly cheap, quiet in operation.
>
> Any cheap USB drive should do,
> as speed is irrelevant for your purpose.
> They're all reasonably quiet nowadays.
>
>> I think my plan would be to use SuperDuper! rather than Time Machine,
>> but that's based on prejudice rather than any real knowledge.
>
> They are entirely different solutions, with different aims.
>
>> The aim
>> would be to have an overnight bootable backup created automatically.
>
> SuperDuper is just the tool for that.
> It means that means you lose everything older than a day though.
> For some purposes that's an advantage,
>
> Jan



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