Thanks Gordon, that was helpful. I just downloaded SuperDuper and will look
it over. Question: Can I use SuperDuper and Time Machine side by side on a
single external drive? Would I need a seperate partition for each? I'm
looking at a 2 terabyte firewire drive from IOMega for backup purposes. My
internal Mac HD is 500GB. do you have a favorite drive or a recommendation
for a good external backup drive? Reliability being the watch word of
course.
thanks
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From: "Gordon Smith" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Command R start up options
Time Machine restoration works in conjunction with the recovery tool, in
this scenario. First, the recovery tool restores your operating system
and default files. Next, you use Time Machine to restore all of your user
data and other things including applications. However, it should be
understood that this is *NOT* a complete backup tool on its own. It
relies upon the current version of the operating system on the Apple
servers which, in many cases, is not a bad thing because you know you're
going to get the most current version.
However, there are some instances where you'd be much better off using a
backup created by Carbon Copy Cloner, Super Duper! or similar tool.
Actually if you're not afraid of the Terminal, there is an on-the-fly
method of backing up an entire volume using just one command. This
command is quite aggressive in as much as there isn't any going back once
you've started the process. Lynne described this pretty well, I think,in
our blog discussion of the subject. If you need to have the URL
re-posted, let us know and we can arrange that. Alternatively, it's in
the list archives.
Gordon
On 28 Aug 2012, at 12:49, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote:
I looked at the Bootup options with Command R held down during startup and
see that one option is recovering from a time machine backup. Can you
recover your hard disk with OS, apps etc, or is time machine just for
documents and folders (data)? I'll be addressing the issue of a backup
strategy soon and if Time machine will restore the OS Apps and documents,
then that's one route I'll consider.
Thanks for any and all help.
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