[Ham-Mac] backing-up

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

Every situation is different.  In my case I have a G4 with three drives.  I
have a primary drive and a backup drive and can boot from either one.  The
third drive is not really used and probably should be removed. I  have read
the good reports on Super Duper but the old Carbon Copy Cloner has worked
for me and I see no reason to change. About once a week I use the Disk
Utility to Partition (note I did not say Erase) the backup SATA hard drive
and let CCC do its thing to a clean drive.  I started to get an external
firewire case but understand Apple is dropping firewire so I will just stay
with what I have.  I have never had a drive fail, but have screwed up the OS
pretty bad from time to time and had to boot from the backup.  Happiness is
a reliable backup drive that will boot your Mac. Too bad you can't boot from
a USB drive.

Dick


On 1/7/06 7:27 AM, "Todd Ruby" <rubywine at verizon.net> wrote:

> I have read with interest the comments on backing up one's hard drive
> and the Super Duper back up software looks like the way to go. My
> remaining question is: if backing up one's primary hard drive is to
> save data in the event of that drive's failure, wouldn't it make more
> sense to back up the data onto removable media, ie. CD's? I mean, if
> you back  up onto an external firewire drive isn't there the potential
> for this drive to fail at some point in the future as well?
> 
> thanks in advance for your advice
> 
> 
> 73
> de
> todd
> WB2ZAB
> 
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