At 11:43 AM -0700 6/16/2012, Anand wrote:
G5 and I am wondering what is the best way to back it up on an external firewire 800 hard drive.
Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is the fav of many of us, and free. http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html SuperDuper! is also good, but $. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ The above two apps will create *reliable* *bootable* clones of your HDs. At 3:10 PM -0500 6/16/2012, Kris Tilford wrote:
Install Leopard 10.5.8 and you can use Time Machine to automagically backup.
Time Machine is cute, but I still cannot recommend it for anything other than quickie daily incremental backups, redundant with a full clone made by a reliable product such as CCC. After n revisions TM still does not produce a bootable volume. And it still sometimes corrupts whole backup volume. It's Just Not Reliable. YMMV, of course.
Search these LEM lists for prior discussions. This subject has been hit quite a few times.
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