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 *
