On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:18 PM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-02-01 06:16 , Eric Weir wrote: > >> I'm guessing that Carbon Copy Clone will allow me to save procedures so they >> can be executed with a single click. > > yes, you can save procedures, and run them manually, schedule them, and i > just noticed you can trigger them "when target is reconnected" with an option > for user confirmation -- i didn't realize that had been added
Cool -- on both counts; especially the latter. >> I don't understand your second paragraph. Sounds like you're saying there's >> some kind of limitation on my ability to specify target locations for >> backups. > > right -- it's hard to describe abstractly -- CCC will by default put files at > the same path on the target as on the source drive, so if you are using the > same drive for two types of backups, this can cause one backup to overwrite > the other; the options i mentioned work around this > >> Whatever, will it apply when I'm using a drive only for backing up photo >> images, etc., not for also imaging my hard drive? > > you won't have any conflicts when doing so, but you may still prefer to > modify the destination path; if you are just syncing images to a dedicated > drive, i would probably use generic rsync, which is more flexible I think I'll have to wait till the drives arrive and I start setting this up before I'll fully understand, but I'm taking it from what you say [1] that the default procedure can be over-ridden, i.e., that I can specify the path to which backups are to be made, and [2] that this would only give rise to problems anyway if I were doing two types of save to the same drive, which now I will not need to do. If it's correct that I can specify the path to which the save is to be made, will doing that interfere with restoration of files to their original source should that become necessary? Thanks again. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
