On Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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.
I did download it a while back, but I don't have the free space
anymore. I since heard there were some issues with it because it is no
longer supported(?). One called SuperDuper was mentioned as being very
good. I believe that might have been on this list before I joined,
actually.
Anyway, I'm pondering getting a Firewire Drive for shuffling things
around (probably will). Does the notion of copying the iMac HD to the
FW drive, reformatting, and then copying the data back make sense?
You can also use RsyncX
<http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html>
This sounds like it would be just the ticket for both Macs. Thanks,
I'll check it out.
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.
Interesting link Bruce. I've been running the iMac 600 G3/40GB now for
3 1/2 years without defragging. It dropped to 3 GB free at one point,
but now there are 10 GB free. It seems to have gotten sluggish. My
son did a fair amount of iMovie work with it at one point, but most of
the movie files are now stored on the PM drive. If this were yours,
would you defrag? If so, what program would you use?
Disk Warrior does one thing: rebuild corrupted disk directories.
Silly me, I ass-u-me'd it would also defrag, like Norton's. Norton's
isn't supposed to be as happy with OSX as with OS9. What do you use,
and how do you like it?
Thanks for your help, Bruce.
- Peter Schaff
PM: 1GHz DP/1 GB/80GBx2/10.2.8
iMac: 600MHz/768MB/40GB/10.2.8
PB: 3400C/9.1
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