On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Peter Schaff wrote:
Hi all,
I would be interested in hearing from the learned here as to how
best to backup. On my Amiga I just had another drive and copied
the contents of the main drive to the second one. But the sheer
volume on stuff on the Macs makes this less effective. Right now
I'm just copying important business stuff to another drive for
safety, but there must be a good system, say for daily backups. I
know there are difficulties with just copying a Mac boot
partition. Any advice?
Carbon Copy Cloner does exactly what you did with your Amiga, and
psync (mentioned in the CCC docs and setup) will back up just the
changed files. This can be run via a cronjob to do it daily, weekly,
monthly, whatever.
You can also use RsyncX <http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/
rsyncx.html>
Also, what do you advise for defragmenting the drives? I've heard
DiskWarrior is the way to go for an OSX disk management utility.
(I do have OS9.2 installed, and Classic of course, but never use
them anymore, so not an issue. Comments?
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668> Is what Apple
says about the subject.
Disk Warrior does one thing: rebuild corrupted disk directories.
Generally one doesn't need to do any 'disk management'
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Bruce Johnson
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