Then, cuz I believe in lots of lifeboats....I use a firewire external drive, and Mr. Bombich's free Carbon Copy Cloner, to do a mirror image of my Mac OS X machine. THAT way, you have both a Finder friendly and automated restore function, AND a tape backup. (I don't trust tape beyond 2-3 years.....used to work in the music recording studio industry and watched too many tapes have problems).
By the way, I also use this CCC image method to deploy standard configurations. It makes it REAL easy to pull a machine onto the bench, back up the users home directory of files, reformat the drive, check memory and drive platter, then image the hard drive from a pocket 20gb firewire startup standard setup drive. The only thing left after that is to copy the home directory back....and good to go.
Also, keep an eye out for Phillips new blue laser DVD reader/writer due, hopefully, at last word, sometime this Summer. (riiiiiight). Then back up to one of those little angels!!!
Bill
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 07:59 PM, Keith Cooper wrote:
Hi
I'd also chip in for the value of Retrospect. I've used it for many years,
and only a few weeks ago pulled a file off a 150MB tape cartridge at least
ten years old. An old Sun SCSI tape drive and the archive were still fully
supported. OK, it was lucky that the tape still worked, but I was impressed
that the archive was readable and I didn't have to fire up an old 68k Mac to
try it.
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