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From: eastender on 11 Dec 2009 18:15
In article <mmf5i5ls0dp3qgpjmkgit9j6fakmhaooec(a)4ax.com>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> I keep a spare USB hard drive around with a handy emergency install of
> SL, and take a Carbon Copy Cloner clone before doing anything dubious
> like OS major version upgrades.

I'll be doing this (with Superduper though I think and a regular
full-disk incremental backup) again as soon as I juggle some external
disk space.

Talking of which, Time Machine has only backed up 14.5GB of the 190GB so
far in six hours. Amusingly, the size of the entire TM folder on the
external 1TB drive is showing 6.1TB.

> Otherwise TM does indeed do okay for me - I've used it for retrievals
> of anything up to whole user folders from the backup, and it's always
> worked fine.

Belt and braces - think I'll be doing both methods.


> In a tiny note of similarity, the only time I've had the OS smash
> itself enough not to boot has been due to fonts. That was 10.5.3 ->
> 10.5.4 or thereabouts, using the combined update.

Fonts corrupt, but an intermittent font corrupts absolutely. Out damn
dingbat!

E.
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