On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course time machine is one option... And I know a few others ... > > What are people recommending for whole system backups for macs? Must be > able to do the whole system, with exclusions, silently in the background, > with low enough priority that users don't complain about resource hogging. > Must be able to save backups across the network onto a system which is not > OSX server.
In general I like SuperDuper! and CarbonCopy Cloner however you've added an interesting twist that you want it to happen while the system is running. I had that requirement at a previous job and what I set up was a mirror that I would attach, let it being the mirror up to date, then detach. Users didn't see much of a performance penalty. Best of all, I could test the backup by booting another Mac on the mirror. The problem was that the "diskutil appleRAID" commands were very complicated. I remember always being nervous that I would reverse the options and mirror the new (blank) disk to the system disk, or that the script I wrote to generate the right command had a bug in it. If I could do it over again, I'd most likely use http://www.softraid.com instead. It seems to be a lot more serious about RAID than Apple. Tom http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html http://www.bombich.com/ccc_features.html -- http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog (new posts Mon and Wed) http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my advice (more videos coming soon) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
