On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:28:28AM +, Cotty scripsit:
On 31/1/10, Graydon, discombobulated, unleashed:
[backup advice]
Many thanks.
You're most welcome!
If this is your primary business, and the UK has the same sort of tax
laws as Her Majesty's Canadian Dominions, you might-maybe be able
Which would be better?
I have a main external hard drive used as a scratch disk and for holding
files for video editing. It gets backed up regularly (using SuperDuper -
backup software) to a second drive for redundancy. Every few months or
so I figure it is a good idea to wipe the main external
If the notion of doing this is to reduce fragmentation and enhance
performance, then the 'erase, drag and drop' methodology would be
better as that will write each file, one at a time, as a contiguous
entity. IIRC, SuperDuper makes volume clones, which preserve the exact
block structure of the
On 2010-01-31 6:42, Cotty wrote:
To wipe the main external drive and simply drag and drop the backup onto it?
or
To wipe the main external drive and use the backup software to allow it
to do its thing and clone back onto it?
I don't know about MAC specifics, since I'm a Windows and Linux
Doug,
Both SuperDuper and ChronoSync that I mentioned place the files onto
the destination disk in their original format. They can optionally
also copy files into virtual volumes (the Mac OS X disk image or
.DMG files) which are well known to the operating system and the
recommended way to
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Doug Franklin
jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote:
On 2010-01-31 6:42, Cotty wrote:
To wipe the main external drive and simply drag and drop the backup onto
it?
or
To wipe the main external drive and use the backup software to allow it
to do its thing and
On 2010-01-31 10:54, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
getting all the
right command line options set up correctly is occasionally a bit of a
fussy business.
If I have to do it more than once, I write a script, so that's only an
issue the first time, for me. :-)
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On 2010-01-31 11:01, Adam Maas wrote:
Most good backup software leaves readable copies of files on the
destination drive when copying to a standard filesystem. I tend to use
rsync-based backup strategies myself, but there's a zillion good
options on Mac, Linux or PC that don't behave as you
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Doug Franklin
jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote:
On 2010-01-31 10:54, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
getting all the
right command line options set up correctly is occasionally a bit of a
fussy business.
If I have to do it more than once, I write a script, so that's
Thanks Godfrey - just what I wanted to read.
In an ideal world, I would have the best fastest machine possible with a
whole line of drives whizz-banging away.
For guerrilla shooting and editing, I'm afraid it's what fits in one bag
over the shoulder. That's a MBP 15 2.4 Ghz with 2 GB RAM and a
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Doug Franklin
jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote:
On 2010-01-31 11:01, Adam Maas wrote:
Most good backup software leaves readable copies of files on the
destination drive when copying to a standard filesystem. I tend to use
rsync-based backup strategies myself,
Did you forget to mention the step where you test your backups before
wiping the working copies?
On Jan 31, 2010, at 3:42 AM, Cotty wrote:
Which would be better?
I have a main external hard drive used as a scratch disk and for
holding
files for video editing. It gets backed up regularly
On 2010-01-31 09:15 , Doug Franklin wrote:
Rsync isn't really a
backup program per se, it's more of a mirroring tool to make sure two
live copies are identical. As such, it works for me for some purposes
and I use it a on Unix-like environments and Windows. But for
mirroring/increments rather
On 31/1/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
Did you forget to mention the step where you test your backups before
wiping the working copies?
Yes of course. I run all existent FCP projects to make sure there are no
missing bits or problems.
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On 31/1/10, steve harley, discombobulated, unleashed:
btw, i'm not certain what Cotty's goal is with his procedure, but Mac
disks don't really need defragging:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
so the only benefit i can see to Cotty's wipe restore ritual is to
avoid
From: Larry Colen
Did you forget to mention the step where you test your backups before
wiping the working copies?
OOPS! DuhOOH!
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For Windows users, MicroSoft has a free, unsupported PowerToy called
SyncToy that works well for backup and maintains the original file
format. It comes in both 32 and 64-bit flavors. You can find it here...
- Original Message -
From: Paul Sorenson
Subject: Re: OT - computer hard drive question
For Windows users, MicroSoft has a free, unsupported PowerToy called
SyncToy that works well for backup and maintains the original file format.
It comes in both 32 and 64-bit flavors. You can
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote:
On 31/1/10, steve harley, discombobulated, unleashed:
btw, i'm not certain what Cotty's goal is with his procedure, but Mac
disks don't really need defragging:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
so the only
On 2010-01-31 15:58, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Larry Colen
Did you forget to mention the step where you test your backups before
wiping the working copies?
OOPS! DuhOOH!
Two rules of backups:
1) If you haven't tested restoring, it's not a backup.
2) If it's not off-site, it's not a
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:42:54AM +, Cotty scripsit:
Which would be better?
I have a main external hard drive used as a scratch disk and for holding
files for video editing. It gets backed up regularly (using SuperDuper -
backup software) to a second drive for redundancy. Every few
On 31/1/10, Graydon, discombobulated, unleashed:
Nice lady at Google got a *huge* data set on disk reliability and
crunched it. Essential take home point -- 3 copies, on 3 different
spindles, or you WILL lose it.
So, first up, you've got only 2 copies. You're going to experience
catastrophic
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