Backup software
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From: Daniel Cohen on 5 Oct 2007 13:59 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)mac.com> wrote: > In my case my backup partitions, all eight of them, are at this time all > larger than the hard drives they backup, so there is no advantage to me, at > least that I see, to omit anything from the "Smart" backups that SuperDuper! > automatically performs each day. Fine. There's another advantage of CCC for new users. SuperDuper costs, though not expensive. CCC is donation-ware, and explicitly free to people in education. -- http://www.decohen.com Send e-mail to the Reply-To address; mail to the From address is never read
From: The New Guy on 5 Oct 2007 15:12 > >> I never use "Users, Documents, My Folders, Etc). > >> My folders are in the same column that Users are in. > > > > Not a good idea. If there is another user on your computer they have > > access to your stuff. > > If you are the only one to use your computer, I guess it can't be that > > bad, but you really should keep all your personal stuff in your user > > folder- that way it is readable/writable only to you. > > What's particularly dumb about his strategy is that he could accomplish > the exact same thing by simply creating a folder (or folders) in his > home directory, and create corresponding aliases where he wants them. Yes I see your point. I've been doing that with Applications after seeing strange things happen when I organized the Applications and grouped them in my own choice of folders. Now I leave all the apps untouched in Applications and organize aliases of them in my own folders. This has worked perfectly. But I haven't seen a need to change my own stubborn folder layout yet. That may change, but so far Silverkeeper has been doing concise incremental backups flawlessly. I'm a happy camper. > I am eagerly awaiting the day where he finds out that his clever and > efficient plans for user file management (so much superior to Apple's > default) and his optimized backup scheme (which ignores the too-deeply- > nested home directory) results in him losing all his photos, music, > etc. which reside in his "unused" home directory (which *obviously* > didn't need to be backed up). > We will then be treated to a diatribe about how Apple should have > prevented him from doing anything so stupid... Lol....yeah, yeah. We'll see how it goes. So far so good. Many thanks to all those contributing. Hopefully other beginners can backup their stuff as well as its working for me.
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 5 Oct 2007 19:16 In <replytogroup-E488FB.14122205102007(a)news.lga.highwinds-media.com>, The...: > Hopefully other beginners can backup their stuff as well as its working > for me. You don't know how good your back scheme is until you have to do a major recovery. If neither you nor anyone else can report how well recovery from your back-up scheme works, then it is far too early to say that it is working for you. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read top-posted, over-quoting or HTML postings. http://improve-usenet.org/
From: J.J. O'Shea on 5 Oct 2007 20:36 On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:16:25 -0400, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote (in article <alpine.OSX.0.9999.0710051814000.8836(a)hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org>): > In <replytogroup-E488FB.14122205102007(a)news.lga.highwinds-media.com>, The...: > >> Hopefully other beginners can backup their stuff as well as its working >> for me. > > You don't know how good your back scheme is until you have to do a major > recovery. If neither you nor anyone else can report how well recovery > from your back-up scheme works, then it is far too early to say that it is > working for you. Actually, that's not correct. If you back up to another hard drive (which I do, now) you can tell quite a lot about your backup almost immediately. Every ever so often I back up the entire system. I then boot up on the backup. This tells me that the backup is good enough to work. I select a few files at random to check and see if they contain what they're supposed to contain. So far, this has worked every time. When my eMac was having motherboard problems, I backed it up to an external drive and ran off that external drive using a different Mac. When the eMac came back, I restored the contents of the external drive to it. When I got an iMac, I used Apple's Migration Assistant to copy the contents of that drive to my new iMac, and the first thing I did once everything was done was to back up to an external drive... and reboot from that drive. In addition to the complete backup of the system drive, I back up various data folders on the system drive (Mail's folder, for example) and data folders on other drives to a different external drive. I've recovered files from that backup on multiple occasions, up to and including the entire contents of my iTunes music folder on one memorable occasion. I can say with confidence that my backup scheme is working for me and has worked for me over a period of many years. -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: The New Guy on 7 Oct 2007 10:50
Question: Does it take much more time to update a backup with the changed user files? It would obviously be very nice to be able to boot up from the external drive but I'm wondering about the time difference between updating all the user files that might entail compared to not bothering and just focusing on my own files. One advantage of just backing up my own files: I know what has been changed and if its going to be a long or short backup. |