On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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
I've been using Time Machine, and I'm in the process of restoring my
last day of system 10.5 from the backup.
Paul
--
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.
--
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.
