On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: >> big snip > > When I finally recovered from my monster crash of Dec 17and after an > "Write all zeros" Erase I then installed 10.4.11 on my 250 Gig and > partitioned my 500 Gig to 420 and 80 then realizing that the 500 Gig > may have had physical problems I did a "Write all Zeros " erase on > the 420 and 80. > > That gave me a 420 Gig and a 45 Gig. Many bad sectors on the 80 gig. > I probably should have Nuked the whole 500 Gig and then partitioned > but by then I was out of patience. > Then I used used SuperDuper to do an incremental back-up on the 420 > Gig and 45 Gig. I figured from what the SuperDuper notes said that it > would up-date all that was different on the Target. Since there was > nothing on the the Target I thought that would mean everything on the > 250 Gig would be moved to the Partitions. > > Also Part of the instructions on SuperDuper says leave the Target > Bootable after an Incremental Up-Date. > > When finished I had two Bootable partitions that were clones of the > 250 Gig drive. Now I run MacJanitor on the 250Gig and incrementally > back the partitions up nightly. It takes about six minutes for about > 9.25 Gig's with my Dual 500 GigE to increment each partition. > > I do have a question though. > > When I run MacJanitor on the 250 Gig and then Increment the other > Volumes does the Clean-up on the 250 get properly transferred to the > other volumes?
Since the CCC operation makes EVERYTHING identical, that would have to be YES. > > I do leave them booted all night in hope that the Cron tasks will > clean them. But not too sure about all that. You can only have ONE system booted on a hardware system at a time. That one will (may) run it's 'cron' jobs. The other one just sits there and does nothing ---- BECAUSE it isn't the running OS Chuck D. > HTH, > ErnieG > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
