Al Poulin wrote:
> 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.
>
Your project here is perhaps the best yet use of larger harddrives I've
seen in a short while. Most of us do file servers, but your idea hear to
have bootable partitions of all your systems on an external HD is great,
as it will save you so much time when something goes wrong.
My question, and maybe Dan would pitch in, do size of the partition on
the machine and that on the external drive have to be the exact same?
> 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
>
> >
>
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