ooh..didn't see this post. This seems to mimic what Acronis backup software does.
As for the Dave post, I have difficulty understanding copying 240Gigs in 12 minutes over a USB connection though. Maybe eSATA, but USB that fast? It takes me much longer to write that amount of data to my external drive :-\ And of course if the first machine isn't working, then you would need another PC to access your files. Clearly Mac OSX has some neat features, but the point is that Vista has made things a bit easier for *windows* users. And, there are no good AAA games for Macs so they're really just quite useless! ^_^ On 8/4/07, Dave l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of my 3 external bu drives started dying, so I bought a new one, plugged > it in, opened up disk utilities spent about 40 seconds formatting the drive > to a mac. Then opened up the dying drive hit apple-a then apple-c then opened > up the new drive and hit apple-v and 12 minutes later all 240gb of data was > transfered and I was done. > > Put in os x install disk and choose to install and archive... 30 minutes > later it was done and when you install and archive it puts a fresh new > install in but transfers all your systems settings to the new install (very > nice apple!) and then it puts the contents of your old install(minus the os > files) in a folder on your desktop that you can browse and get your stuff if > need be, you dont need any of that virtual pc or any of that. Then I opened > up my one external drive and grabbed my old home folder and dropped it on my > new install and less than 15 minutes later it was done and was EXACTLY how my > last install was... all my mail was there and setup, all my programs, > bookmarks, everything just how it was. And that took what.. maybe an hour and > 20 minutes or so. > ummmmm... ok > So having to get your files you would need another machine and virtual pc.... > you dont think just having a folder on your own desktop that you can just > open up and get things is more elegant? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239557 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
