On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:42 PM, aussieshepsrock wrote:
> > Hello, > G4 1.37ghz 768mb/120g with recent upgrade to 10.4.6 from 10.4.11. I > was using Superduper to keep this, my father's computer, backed up on > a 100gig partition on an external firewire drive (with a seperate > partition) holding the superdupe clone of my Mini's Internal HD which > I run 10.4.11 on. > I've never ever touched, seen, or used Timemachine before, but have > a year or two of trust and experience with SuperDuper. Should I stick > with that or give TimeMachine the job? Can it use a drive physically > smaller than the internal drive in his G4? His drive has less than > 40gig used and I know SuperDuper is OK with smaller drives holding the > dupe of the original, but larger drive. > The backup is kept 'offline' completely unplugged from anything > unless being updated or 'rescuing' a problem situation. Does this > influence TimeMachine's usability? I run SuperDuper on a manual basis > on a fairly regular basis and my father backs up his snapshots from > iphoto regularly on his own. > > Does anyone have an opinion on these issues? > > Thanks > Richard Super duper or carbon copy cloner. I like these better because they create bootable backups and I think they're more stable. Just my opinion. Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
