I use Super Duper with an external FW drive.
I have bought FW800/400 combo drives but I don't think the speed
difference is worth it unless you are working with video in which
case there are better options nowadays.
I bought Super Duper (well worth the price) and it enables me to use
smart backup which only changes the changed files and lets me backup
an 80Gb external via FW400 in about 12-19 minutes. In that way it's
easy to do daily backups. Buy a 250Gb drive and partition it into an
80Gb backup partition and use the rest to store stuff.
The drives can fail (don't buy 'hard box') but you'd have to be very
unlucky to have both h/disks fail from normal means at the same time.
That said, I have 4 externals. For the extra price for a FW800/400
combo drive put it towards getting an extra cheaper drive. 7200rpm is
good.
Brett carboni
Tsunami
"Sushi backed up daily to tummy drive"
On 06/04/2006, at 3:07 PM, Dudley Gager wrote:
G'day listers
Am I still in the dark ages backing up to CD?
I have just found SuperDuper and it seems to me that using it with
a firewire drive would be a lot easier (read I would backup more
often) + I like the idea of bootable backups.
SuperDuper recommend firewire drives from Other World Computing,
WiebeTech, LaCie or Maxtor OneTouch
I have about 40GB to back up from a 160GB internal drive.
I thought of 2 automated rotating backups - weekly and monthly - so
I would need 80GB minimum.
Do I go for Firewire 800 (my present Mac says it only does 400) and
do I go for 7200 drive speed and any recommendations as to brand.
