-- An amusing little ditty I saw years ago about Backups: Yesterday All my backups were a waste of pay.... Now my database has gone away... I remember Yesterday....
(for the tune, see the Beatles' number 'Yesterday'). David Noel 2011 Jun 26 ===== On 26 June 2011 10:13, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > > On 25/06/2011, at 12:54 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> >> On 24/06/2011, at 9:26 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> Hi Daniel & Peter, >>> >>> Excellent posts! >>> >>> I’m tossing up whether to Install Lion on an external firewire drive (as >>> Daniel is aware, I have heaps of spare drives ;-), OR “Install & Dual-Boot >>> OS X 10.7 Lion & OS X 10.6.7" on my MBP? This way I would have TWO separate >>> installations of Mac OS X, (Lion & Snow Leopard) on my MBP & can boot into >>> Lion for testing purposes. >>> If I find I don’t want to keep Lion, I can uninstall it without having to >>> do a system restore from a Snow Leopard backup. >>> i.e Create a 20GB partition for Mac OS X Lion (after of course BACKING UP >>> my current Snow Leopard system). >>> >>> I would then still use Snow Leopard as my primary daily working system, but >>> boot into Lion for testing. >>> >>> I will give this a lot more thought before I decide which way to go. >>> But I would be very interested in your comments on which way I should go >>> (watch it Daniel … if you suggest “where I should go, instead of which" :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >> >> One of the best investments I have ever made was the little NewerTech >> Voyager hard drive dock which I bought from Daniel. This brilliant little >> device allows me to have a virtually unlimited number of hard drives at my >> disposal. The Voyager has a couple of Firewire 800 ports, in addition to a >> Firewire 400 and a USB 2 port (with an eSATA port to boot), so I always have >> access to the fastest backup technology available. >> >> Shortly after taking delivery of my nice shiny new 27" i5 iMac last week, >> the first thing I did was to take myself off to Austin Computers and pick a >> couple of new bare 1Tb hard drives for about $65 each. One of these is for >> my constant Time Machine backup, and the other is for a weekly clone using >> Carbon Copy Cloner. All I have to do is remember to pop out the Time Machine >> drive each Saturday night and drop in the clone drive, ready for the >> scheduled clone which will happen on Sunday morning at 9:00am. >> >> The point of all this is that upon the release of Lion, it will be an >> extremely simple process to get another drive purely for the purpose of >> testing Lion on a fresh clone of my hard drive AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE, and >> not have to worry about upsetting any current apple carts. > > Thanks Peter for your comments, I appreciate you taking the time. > > I’m leaning towards a completely separate drive to test Lion on (& I have > plenty of spare external FW Drives ;-). > The only reason I was going to install it on a separate partition on my MBP > was to save having to carry another drive in my computer bag if clients ask > to see a demo of Lion. > My computer bag already has extra drives in it to backup computers before I > work on them (people that don’t heed my warning “BACKUP BACKUP”!) > > Thanks again. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
