Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:36:11 -0600 schrieb/wrote Marlyse Comte: actually, I do backup to networked volumes with superduper!, so this statement is not absolutely correct. well yes, it does, but it does not back up objects owned by root so you can't fully mirror your entire drive data to a

Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 8:04 am +0900, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Am/On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:36:11 -0600 schrieb/wrote Marlyse Comte: actually, I do backup to networked volumes with superduper!, so this statement is not absolutely correct. well yes, it does, but it does not back up objects owned

Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:30:22 + schrieb/wrote Tim Hodgson: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 8:04 am +0900, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Am/On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:36:11 -0600 schrieb/wrote Marlyse Comte: actually, I do backup to networked volumes with superduper!, so this statement is not absolutely

Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread C. A. Niemiec
if I'm not wrong, SuperDuper! is only a GUI to resync. imho it does not work fully with network volumes, and that's were you want to have your backup. There was some article comparing backup solutions, SuperDuper was the only one to preserve modification dates (or such). I think it also said

Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread Marlyse Comte
SuperDuper! does backup all files if you so wish. By default it will not backup SOME files recommended by Apple, but this some does not refer to all root owned files. And to whomever made the comment that it's just Rsync with an interface, this is quite not true, they are both very distinctively

[OT] Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread Marlyse Comte
Absolutely. makes me nervous too, especially after trashing by mistake a 140 GB (yes, GB) backup file... looong story, don't ask (if you DO want to read up how a backup fanatic can get into and out of a highly stupid situation : http://www.marlyse.com/2006/11/15/recovery/). You CAN recover such a

Re: [OT] Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie

2007-02-22 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 2:31 pm -0600, Marlyse Comte wrote: This was the reason I once again began looking at other solutions, but I've just found none ( - even though I'd like to use Rsync, I'm not able to make some dependable script with it). Yes, I'd like to use rsync, but every time I've

powermail-discuss Digest #2569 - 02/22/07

2007-02-22 Thread PowerMail discussions
powermail-discuss Digest #2569 - Thursday, February 22, 2007 Re(2): Basic questions from a possible newbie by Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Spotlight cache in PM folder? by Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Basic questions from a possible newbie by Matthias