I want to use a 1TB external Firewire hard drive initialized in Apple Partition Map to make bootable clones of a PPC G4 iBook and two or three Intel Macs. Each source machine will have its own partition on the FW drive. I plan to use "Incremental backup" for File level copying.
To restore files, CCC documentation says in several places: "Note that you cannot select the boot drive as the target, you will need to boot from another drive if you need to restore directly to your boot drive." Does this mean that I simply boot from the clone on the partition of the FW drive and launch CCC on that partition, or must I boot from a third volume? Is there any utility in having a separate, bootable "universal" volume on my FW drive with its own copy of CCC? Note Apple's Article HT2595. If so, then when Snow Leopard comes to my Intel Macs, that volume is not longer universal, right? I foresee moving the FW drive from Mac to Mac and room to room to keep bootable clone backups up to date. Looking at CCC documentation for backing up "to another Macintosh on your network," it appears that this method cannot maintain a bootable clone, since the context deals with "selected data" to a "folder." Correct? Thank you, Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
