Actually I can back up my recovery disk via carbon copy clowned. See my earlier post on my podcast at http://tffp.marrie.org/374 for a very detailed explanation on CCC as I call it.
Take care and enjoy. On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Josh, > > While you can partition a new hard drive fairly easily with Disk Utility by > selecting the drive and going to the "Partition" tab, you might consider just > getting a dedicated hard drive for Time Machine backups. Time Machine will > fill up the available space, deleting the oldest backups as it runs out of > room, which is why you want to either partition the drive or dedicate a drive > if you are going to continue using it over time. And this is also why you > don't want to store other files in the same location if you continue to run > Time Machine and run out of space -- since these other, non-Time Machine > files, can eventually be overwritten when this happens. > > Starting up Time Machine can be as simple as attaching a brand new hard drive > (that is formatted for Mac's file system) and answering the prompt for "Do > you want to use this drive for Time Machine backups?", which includes an > option for deciding later if you don't want to decide now. > > I like to keep a bootable clone of my current operating system. You can > create this with either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. This lets you get > a working system up right away by attaching the cloned hard drive, and > booting up while holding the "Option" key. Then, once you've heard the chime > and activity stop after 10 or 15 seconds, press either the right or left > arrow key followed by the return key to boot from your clone. The only > amendment for Lion is that your clone won't include the Lion recovery > partition, but you can create a separate recovery drive if you read the > TidBITS article, "Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Creates External Recovery > Drives": > http://tidbits.com/article/12411 > > You can read details about how to create a bootable clone in Lynne's blog > article from last year: > • "How to copy (Backup), (Clone) Your System Start Volume" > http://maciosaccessdotnet.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/mac-osx-system-backup/ > > You can also get even more extensive details by taking advantage of your list > member's 80% discount, and getting the "Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac" > volume. I'll quote from a recent post by Travis about the two (off-list) > contact points for doing this. "So, anyone is welcome to purchase directly > from support at mac-access.net, or myself ([email protected]) and you will > get the same books at the same prices. With the added caveat that if you > purchase through me, I do not have the facilities to offer the downloadable > bookshelf that Gordon and Lynne maintain, so you will need to contact them to > get that setup after the transaction is complete." The reference to the > downloadable bookshelf is way of getting access to a bookshelf for the most > recent copies of your book purchases that is more accessible than the main > TidBITS site. This is useful if you want to get another version (e.g. ePub > for reading on your mobile device) or access to a later version after your > purchase. Since Lynne and Gordon are away at Wimbledon at present, setups > for the bookshelf access, or processing the orders through them might take a > bit longer. They usually handle the non-U.S. orders and Travis handles the > U.S. ones. > > You can read more about the Take Control book on backups and download a PDF > sample of the content here: > http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/backing-up > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:56 AM, josh gregory wrote: > >> Oh wow... very interesting. And a good end to it, too. So this brings >> up a question: How do you go about setting up time machine? I've >> looked, and it looks like the only real way to do it is by >> partitioning a part of the hard drive, which I'm not keen on just yet. >> Thoughts? 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