On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Backup. Backup. Backup. > > I keep my OS on its own hard drive: All my apps *and* data are on > another physical drive. And I have an image of the OS drive (updated > weekly) available at all times. If any update to the OS causes > problems, or even if the drive experiences a catastrophic failure, I > can set everything right in 5 minutes (or 5 minutes after replacing > the HD in the "catastrophic failure" scenario!)
It's not sensible to divide up the OS and some application installs, like Photoshop, which install bits in various locations throughout the OS libraries for color management, etc. I maintain an image clone of the startup volume on a bootable external volume. If the entire machine goes belly up, I just plug that into another cpu and plug in the continuously running incremental backup volume, go to work again. Very fast, very efficient, handles even the most catastrophic failure with no losses. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
