Would CCC help transferring a set-up from one PB to another? I will soon have to move everything to a new PB, and while many things are relatively straightforward, there are also things which will need a lot of time if I have to install them all from scratch again (those apps which have files installed outside the app folder, especially TeX).
FYI, I am using Retrospect Express which preserves previous back-ups. This saved me when a database had been corrupted for over a week (as a result of restarting), and the latest back-up turned out to be worthless. A complete back-up overwrite would have left me in the cold. RE is not the most intuitive piece of software around, but solid. willem 1:21 am Monday, June 7, 2004 cheshirekat cheshirekat sent the following message: >On Mon, Jun 7, 200410:04 PM, the following words from Stephane Terreaux >[EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ... > >>Le 7/06/04 à 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> >>>I'm curious because I'm >>>getting ready to reformat my internal hard drive now that my new external >>>backup drive has finally arrived, so I want to be sure to backup >>>everything required. >> >>I suggest you have a look at Carbon Copy cloner >><http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html> >> >>With this software, and with a comfortable external drive, you don't have >>to think much about what you need to backup ... > >I was considering CCC until I heard about a few glitches on other mailing >lists that I'm not comfortable with encountering. One major glitch is >that someone didn't have enough space on their backup disk and CCC didn't >check for this prior to starting the backup. When the backup erred >because CCC filled the drive as much as possible, there wasn't enough >room for the user to access anything on that drive without errors. (I >don't recall whether they were able to use another utility to salvage the >data on that drive.) I shouldn't have that problem with my new backup >drive since it is empty and twice the size of my internal drive, but it >is a glitch that combined with other things I've heard about CCC makes me >choose to stay away, at least for now. > >I'm trying out Apple's Backup application and LaCie''s SilverKeeper >application. The Backup log shows that Backup didn't have any problems >copying over all my PM files and preferences. Although I'm not sure I >want to rely on a proprietary format backup to get to stuff on my backup >drive. But some folders can't be copied directly to my external without >errors related to invisible files. This was much easier to do with OS 7- >9, IME. I may still use a combination of backup software and AppleScripts. > >-- >Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. >- Ned Rorem > >* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram * > >
