At 2:55 PM -0500 11/9/2008, Charles Davis wrote: >On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Al wrote:
*grumble* Google groups *grumble* yet-another message not received *grumble* > > So, these two, separate replies mean that I may be able to do >> everything I want with CCC going to one FireWire or bootable USB-2 >> external drive. As long as they're connected to another Mac, not a NAS type disk server. > > (1) Set up a partition for each of four Macs with ethernet to make >> bootable clones of all internal hard drives, taking entire contents. Um, yes but I'm not sure what "with ethernet" means in this context. How does ethernet come into play when setting up partitions? > > (2) Set up space(s) for the Users folder of each internal hard drive >> to take incremental, maybe daily, backups. A question here is whether >> I need four more partitions, or can I use one partition with four >> distinct target folders, one folder for each Mac? Maintaining a single separate partition for *each* Mac is the easiest / cleanest solution. It means you'll use more storage in total but it keeps things clean on a per system basis. No need for an additional set of partitions. Use CCC's incremental backup's "Archive Modified and Deleted Items" option. Then, each run of CCC will create a new time-stamped folder at the top level of the backup volume. In there, will be all the old data ... IOW, it becomes your incremental/daily from "yesterday". The volume itself is updated to match the source, so it is "today". > > If the above makes sense, going further into dreamland, I could get a >> dual-drive system set up in RAID 1. One example: at Other World >> Computing which works with FW and USB-2. > > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/raid_1/Gmax RAID is expensive. Use RAID to improve the performance of your live system. Use normal volumes to do your backups - that you can disconnect, etc. RAID boxes tend to be fragile. In a normal user environment, it seems like they fail too often. So I don't recommend them for backups. > > Another example is the more expensive Drobo, which has more industrial >> weight expansion, including the gigabit NAS option with DroboShare > > that I could play with later. Now you're into the NAS scenario, so you have to limit what you can do with CCC. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
