[Ham-Mac] Back Up Lesson Learned on Christmas Eve

[Jack Brindle]

On Dec 27, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> On 12/27/09 4:15 AM, "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> A few of questions please:
>> 1) do you know if just one AppleCare agreement can be used for
>> multiple macs?
>
> David,  the AppleCare agreement is per device.

Let's clarify this a bit. It actually covers the things you buy with  
your Mac. So if you buy an Airport with your Mac, it also covers the  
Airport. I don't believe Apple has separate AppleCare for these types  
of devices, just for Macs, iPods and iPhones. Note, though, that if  
you buy an iPod (or iPhone) with your Mac, you still need separate  
AppleCare for that device...

I agree with the utility of SuperDuper. Wish _I_ had written that  
excellent code!


> I have a generic case with new 500 GB Western Digital SATA drive. I  
> used
> the OS X Disk Utility to format the drive into two partitions. One  
> is called
> SuperDuper and the other is labeled Time Machine.  The ration between
> the two partition is up to the user.  My primary Macintosh HD never  
> gets
> over about 100 GB so I set the SuperDuper partition to 175 GB and gave
> the rest to the Time Machine.

As usual, Dick knows what he is talking about. 1TB drives have become  
rather inexpensive at this point, dropping well below the $100 price  
point. Fry's was selling Iomega 1TB drives in a USB & FW400 enclosure  
for $99 before Christmas. You definitely want to use the Firewire  
interface - its protocols make it far faster than the USB interface.

I have a 1TB drive I use for backup - it has three partitions. The  
first is about 10GB and holds a base MacOS 10.6 OS and SuperDuper. The  
second partition is about the same size as the Mac's drive, and the  
third takes up the rest of the space. I use the last on for general  
storage. Note that this drive only backs up Intel Macs. I have a  
second 500GB drive I use for backing up PPC systems. The two use  
different system maps - you cannot boot an Intel Mac from a PPC drive  
and vice versa.

Hope this helps!


Jack Brindle, W6FB