On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >>> 1. I feel like making two separate backups, one of my whole drive >>> and >>> then one of my user folder, as if I backup every couple of days and >>> the system does something weird, wouldn't it be better to have a >>> system to revert to? >>> >> >> Absolutely > > I think I did not post this question properly. Should I backup the > whole system once and then not update that backup until the next > system update, and then separately backup the user files, nearly > every day? > > The reason to do this would be that if you back up the System every > day, would you not be backing up whatever errors have crept into > it, thereby rendering the backup problematic when a problem occurs? > > Does this make sense? > Your concern and question make sense. Lets separate things a bit, Backups, Bootable systems, may or may not be equivalent. If you have a 'clone' bootable system, as long as you 'boot' that system on a 'hardware package' with at least the minimum hardware NEEDED, Then you have YOUR system, as of the time of the 'clone; operation. If all you have are 'backups', then you need to duplicate the original hardware, install the OS, and applications needed, and then restore your backups. With todays costs for HD space, I can't see NOT backing up the whole thing. My systems, (3-MDDs, 1 PB) all have a 55-60 GB partition on the internal HD. I have a couple of large Firewire HDs, partitioned with multiple partitions of approximately 60GB. These partitions contain several generations of system clones. I use SuperDuper! -- it has a setting to 'update/clone', which will update a previously made clone to match today. which usually is 20 minutes or less.(18GB of used space) I can 'swap hardware' and be back up & running for only the 'physical swap & boot up' time. The only time that I would be using a current system that was having problems, would be to clear out the space to restore a known good system, (one of the clone copies) while still being able to look at and retrieve data from the 'current' system. HTH Chuck D. > > > Anne Keller Smith > Down to Earth Web Design > > G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower > 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 > > Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo > 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 > > Intel iMac 2.66gHz Core 2 Duo > 2GB RAM, 264GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.6 > > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.downtoearthweb.com > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
