On Sep 26, 2008, at 8:55 PM, diane wrote:

>
> OK folks, I've got two 500gb drives, an SATA card, and a 4 port USB
> card on its way here. Should be here Tuesday.
>
> 'twill be nice to have a fresh system install. This machine came with
> Jaguar I think, then I did a Tiger upgrade the Leopard. My address
> book hasn't opened since.
>
> My plan is to keep the current 120gb in there for the time being. I
> will install Leopard on a new 500gb and start reinstalling apps as
> needed.
>
> I want to make the 2nd drive into a bootable backup. Is SuperDuper
> the best choice?

The beauty of the "Apple Way" vs. Wintel, is that you are NOT  
restricted to A specific location for 'Bootable'.

With Apple, ANY partition can be operational [Bootable].
Chuck D.
>
> I currently use ChronoSync but it won't will make a bootable drive
> yet. When I first researched it I was only keeping my work folder
> current between the desktop and laptop and it is wonderful for that.
> But it chokes at times on certain file permissions and I can't afford
> to let that happen anymore. I have emailed them for info on version 4
> which is supposed to do that (not spending more money is attractive
> right now)
>
> TIA,
>
> Diane
>
> >


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