On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
The reason to do this would be that if you back up the System every
day, would you not be backing up whatever errors have crept into it,
thereby rendering the backup problematic when a problem occurs?
This is a separate issue entirely.
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I do no other 'system maintenance' whatsoever: I don't run
DiskWarrior, Repair Permissions, Onyx, AppleJack, etc etc etc. As I
said, OS X is robust. Leave it the heck alone and it usually runs
pretty well all by itself.
Since you do not
On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I do no other 'system maintenance' whatsoever: I don't run
DiskWarrior, Repair Permissions, Onyx, AppleJack, etc etc etc. As I
said,
On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
I have always had it connected to
an UPS, usually APC. Buy a new one every couple years when the battery
goes. (Not worth it to ship a battery methinks.)
If you have a chain like Batteries Plus in your neck of the woods,
they sell
On Apr 25, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
I'm on the verge of getting a bootable external hard drive.
Presently I have two - a Fantom and a Maxtor, non-bootables, around
200 gigs each. They are meant to be dupes of each other, contain my
user folder and archives. (Altho the
On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
On Apr 26, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
1. I feel like making two separate backups, one of my whole drive
and
then one of my user folder, as if I backup every couple of days and
the system does something weird, wouldn't it
At 10:09 PM -0400 4/26/09, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
On Apr 26, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
1. I feel like making two separate backups, one of my whole drive and
then one of my user folder, as if I backup every couple of days and
the system does something weird, wouldn't it be better
I'm on the verge of getting a bootable external hard drive.
Presently I have two - a Fantom and a Maxtor, non-bootables, around
200 gigs each. They are meant to be dupes of each other, contain my
user folder and archives. (Altho the archives are not *quite* dups any
more if you want me to
