The National Enquirer reports at 6:38 PM -0400 10/23/04,
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>At 11:19 PM +0200 10/23/2004, Larry le Mac wrote:
> >>From: victoria Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>i will need to back up all the info off of my Lombard to the Emac.
> >>
> >>what will be the quickest way ?.
> >>what will be the safest?.
> >
> >If it had been a Pismo I would have said FW target mode, but the
> >Lombard only has USB, so I'd say Ethernet without a doubt.
>
>Exactly.
My turn to disagree. :-)
>Bring up AppleTalk between the two computers and use the built-in
>File Sharing.
>
>IF the Lombard is running OS 7/8/9, then turn on File Sharing on the
>eMac. Mount the eMac's HD on the Lombard then copy what you need to
>the eMac drive.
Under the best of circumstances, drag-and-drop is the weakest method
of making a duplicate copy. The biggest danger is missing invisible
files that often don't get copied by this method. That doesn't mean
it shouldn't be done. Just remember there might be unexpected
results. IMO drsag-and-drop works better when moving specific folders
rather than trying to duplicate an entire device.
>IF the Lombard is running OS X, then turn on File Sharing on the
>Lombard, mount its HD on the eMac and copy files from there.
Copy how? Surely you aren't recommending drag-and-drop copying to
duplicate an OS X volume. Simply copying files to a backup device
won't get the invisible files that are at root level of the disk's
directory structure. (It will get invisibles that are inside folders.)
Numerous invisibles that reside at root level of the disk are ...
-- System files, like boot blocks and other disk data, like drivers, etc.;
-- some caches and other files associated with various software;
-- Desktop Folders for the disk which carry the Finder's icon and
file placement
information (not the disk directory);
-- disk directory information that says where every bit and byte is
physically on
the disk;
-- some key code and serial number and validation files for some programs.
I've been tod that there are approximately 120,000 files installed
with OS X (complete install I assume). I've never tried to count
them, so I'm going to take this at face value. That's an enormous
amount of files to be dragging-and dropping.
The most effective way to copy *all* of your files (again IMHO) would
be to use a backup application that can make an exact duplicate.
Carbon Copy Cloner is one that is most often recommended. As I
recall, it uses FireWire. Would it work with a non-native FW unit
using a FW PCMCISA card (for PB) or PCI FW card (desktop)? If so,
that would be my first choice. (FW PCMCIA cards are fairly cheap
these days and needed with the early G3 PowerBooks for external
backup drives.)
The full copy of Retrospect (not Express) is another backup
application that will accomplish the OP's desired goal, though it is
not cheap by any means.
There are others available as well.
Just my $.02 worth,
Bob
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