At 10:09 PM -0400 4/26/09, 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?
Yes, and that would be the preferable way to do it assuming you have the drive space. You may want to do periodic backups of the whole system more frequently than that, as there are always little changes that you're making there (application and system updates, and probably other changes as well). In fact, it's best if you keep more than one copy of the whole system if you can - one older version, and one more recent version. Just in case one of your backups isn't good. (in commercial environments it's not uncommon to save backups nightly, weekly, monthly, and yearly, but that might be overkill for you. I do it on my servers.) -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
