Thanks Sam, Of course what I also needed to mention, but forgot, is that the new drive really needs to be Firewire.
P ---- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] W: www.philward.biz W: http://soundcloud.com/philberish W: www.thegalleons.com W: https://www.facebook.com/thegalleons W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com/album/the-galleons W: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-galleons/id520549816 * Freelance writer and product designer. * Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. * Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. On 27 Sep 2014, at 08:58, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say 2TB western digital passport as they don't require an extra power > supply and come with a 3 year warranty. You can either start from scratch and > back up normally, or use SuperDuper to clone over the historic time machine > backups (Carbon Copy Cloner doesn't support cloning TM backups). > > If your current drive has a bad block, which would interrupt a SuperDuper > clone, CCC might be able to do a block clone and skip that one. > > Regards > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > On 27 Sep 2014, at 07:53, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Morning All, >> >> My Time Machine drive has just developed an unmistakeable death-rattle, it's >> also full. So first, what are the latest SMUG thoughts on the best brand of >> external HD to go with? And second, what's the procedure for replacing a >> Time Machine drive? >> >> Ta >> Phil >> >> >> ---- >> Phil Ward >> >> Skype: aphilw >> E: [email protected] >> W: www.philward.biz >> W: http://soundcloud.com/philberish >> W: www.thegalleons.com >> W: https://www.facebook.com/thegalleons >> W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com/album/the-galleons >> W: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-galleons/id520549816 >> >> * Freelance writer and product designer. >> * Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. >> * Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
