Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-16 Thread Rachel magario
] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:23 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why would you want

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why would you want to run lion as a virtual machine by the way? Why not just natively? Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Bill Holton wrote

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-16 Thread Rachel magario
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:23 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Blouch
- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:23 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi James, I find Carbon Copy Cloner to be very accessible, and I've heard similar comments about SuperDuper. Les On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:47 PM, james Walton wrote: as far as accessibility what would you recommend mike? ccc or super duper i find ccc great but was wondering if super duper is

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Bill, James and others, Super duper is equal in its functionality as far as backing up and bootable backups go. CCC is free. Super duper costs 30 dollars or so. Super duper has an extra bit of functionality though, that I really love, now that I messed up my system installing the wrong

RE: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Holton
Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill, James and others, Super duper is equal in its functionality as far as backing up and bootable backups go. CCC is free. Super duper costs 30 dollars or so. Super duper has an extra bit of functionality though, that I really love

RE: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Holton
machine and then resynch the files when I get home/ -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:04 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill, James and others, Super duper is equal in its functionality as far as backing up and bootable backups go. CCC is free. Super duper costs 30 dollars or so. Super duper has an extra bit of functionality though

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:04 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill, James and others, Super duper is equal in its

RE: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Holton
. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:13 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, You can

RE: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Holton
: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, If your brother has an intel mac then yes. You can take your usb drive to his place and work on it there. Back home, you can smart update from your usb disk back to your hard drive. To make this work, before going to your brother's

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:13 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, You can repartition an external drive, and create both

RE: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Holton
: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:23 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why would you want to run lion as a virtual machine by the way? Why

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Erkens
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why would you want to run lion as a virtual machine by the way? Why not just natively? Paul

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why would you want to run lion as a virtual machine by the way? Why not just natively? Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Bill Holton wrote

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Rachel magario
one. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:23 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-14 Thread Rachel magario
, September 14, 2011 2:23 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives Hi Bill Holton, Both sandboxing and running Lion inside vm fusion requires some system maintanance. Why would you want to run lion as a virtual machine by the way? Why

Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-13 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I have a 2 tarabyte drive on its way, and I have a few questions about Mac backups. First, as I seem to recall, with Superdooper you can create a backup in a format you can actually boot from, if the system becomes trashed? Is this correct? Is SuperDooper the only package that allows this,or

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Blouch
There is also Carbon Copy Cloner but I've never used it to backup a non-Mac drive. CB On 9/13/11 12:31 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. I have a 2 tarabyte drive on its way, and I have a few questions about Mac backups. First, as I seem to recall, with Superdooper you can create a backup in a

RE: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-13 Thread Bill Holton
Of Chris Blouch Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:32 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives There is also Carbon Copy Cloner but I've never used it to backup a non-Mac drive. CB On 9/13/11 12:31 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. I have a 2

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Blouch
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:32 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives There is also Carbon Copy Cloner but I've never used it to backup

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Arrigo
Time machine does not make a bootable backup, although you can boot off of the system dvd or the lion recovery and restore your entire system. Another program that will make a bootable backup is carbon copy cloner, this is the one I tend to use, but super duper is also a great program, and I

Re: Questionabout Super Doopper and external drives

2011-09-13 Thread james Walton
as far as accessibility what would you recommend mike? ccc or super duper i find ccc great but was wondering if super duper is better thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to