On Aug 6, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Russell Courtenay <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner for years to make a bootable > (ostensibly) backup. Well, they seem to have changed their shareware setup so > after a certain amount of time it stops working. That’s lousy. > I just don't have $39.95 to spend on software today so I figured I would > write a script in Automator. But I really don't know what I'm doing. My > programming really hasn't kept pace beyond Commodore Basic and machine > language and Y2K web pages. > > I found some basic instructions online to make a scheduled backup but that is > not really what I want. I just want a button I can click every couple days to > copy every new file, delete files on the backup that I have deleted on my > hard drive and keep it bootable in case I need it. > > Seems simple enough, has anyone here done this? I wrote a shell script for an OS X 10.4 system that backs up to an external hard drive. It uses rsync built with a patch to copy resource forks. Then it uses pax to create a “ghost” of the backup directory, i.e. a forest of duplicate directories populated with hard links of the files. So it’s an incremental backup process, but each result is a full backup. On more recent systems, I use Time Machine. I haven’t tried making a bootable backup. I don’t think I’d want to — if I’m going to restore from the backup, I don’t want to do it from the currently running system. Perhaps I’d place the affected machine in Target Disk Mode and plug both it and the backup drive into the service machine. > On the wife's PC I just set up an xcopy batch file, simple and dirty. I wish > it would tell me what is happening over those two hours it is working, but it > does seem to work. My script prints the path of each out-of-date file it copies. Let me know if you’d like to pursue this, and I’ll post it online. Josh -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
