Dan wrote: > At 4:48 AM -0700 3/20/2009, artemis wrote: > >> What I'm concerned about is this: When Mike Bombich says that CCC >> erases the target drive in order to do its thing, does he mean it >> erases the ENTIRE drive? >> Or will it safely clone to the vacant partition leaving the files on >> the other two partitions intact? >> > > For your purposes, you do NOT want to do a block-level clone. A > block-level clone is an *exact* copy of your original - including any > file system holes and bad blocks. Instead, you need to do a > file-level backup - which CCC calls an Incremental. Prepare your > volumes in advance then do the incremental then CCC will populate the > volume, building a new clean file system as it goes. > > >> Also, considering CCC is installed in the Apps folder of the IBM, are >> there any issues regarding, basically, having this drive clone ITSELF >> while it's essentially the active drive? >> > > From the OS' point of view, there's no problemo. > > But some apps keep data in memory for far too long before writing it > to disk. This means the files that CCC grabs will be a tad out of > date. To prevent that, it's best to quit those app (eg: Eudora), as > well as dismount any dmg volumes. > > >> If I understand the documentation correctly, it seems to say it can be >> done, albeit preferably during idle time. >> > > Idle is best, because you're modifying fewer files. > > If you want to speed up the backup a bit, btw, tell it to ignore > "Library/Caches" and "/private/var/vm/". Note the lack of the > initial "/". That's done so as to ignore /Library/Caches/ *and* all > the caches folders in each user directory. > > - Dan. > So Dan...what is it going to take to get you to list YOUR apps here...as I've been trying to do?
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