On Jun 1, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

>> Meaning I dont want to continually back up any user
>> files,
>
> ?? This pretty much voids the use of a backup. The entire purpose of
> backups are to preserve the files that don't come on the CD's and OS
> Disks...which are your user files. This is the stuff that's difficult
> or impossible to replace...if you need bootable functionality, you've
> got that with your OS Disc.

A strategy which I have found to be useful is a 1 TB drive  
partitioned into two identical halves.

The lowest is the primary. The highest is the alternate.

At the end of each week, the lowest is cloned to the highest by  
automatically selecting the changed files, a CCC option. The initial  
time, only, this results in a complete copy.

GUID's hidden partition, which is actually below the lowest  
partition, and where the EFI emulation stuff is kept on a Hackintosh,  
is not copied. This hidden partition is never used by Apple, so this  
backup strategy works for an Apple running Leo as well as a  
Hackintosh running Leo.



http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> A home for the Hackintosh  
community.

To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to hq-a 
[email protected]




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