[G4] Backup Strategies

sr ferenczy srf7425 at rit.edu
Thu Apr 3 16:06:06 PST 2003


open up os x's Disk Utility, select the "RAID" tab, drag the icon of 2 
harddrives (from the left hand list) into the box where it says "drag 
disks here" and then select "mirror" from the top drop down menu. 
finally, click "create" in the lower right.

***note*** this will delete all the data on both drives!!

sandor

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 01:10  AM, David Crandon wrote:

> How do you set one drive to mirror the other?
>
> David Crandon
>
> SnowWhite wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 08:12  AM, Anne Keller-Smith
>> <earthpigz at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Does it make sense to have something that will only backup
>>> changed files, or backup the whole drive each time it is
>>> scheduled to back up.
>>
>> You could just buy a second internal drive (Maxtor 80 gig 7200 rpm 
>> with
>> 8MB cache comes to mind) and set your machine to mirror your main
>> drive. This would make both drives identical and if one crashed out 
>> you
>> move on to the second. And no extra wires on the desk, it's all 
>> inside.
>> This suggested drive is faster, bigger, quieter and uses a larger 
>> cache
>> than stock HDs. Other than that-if ever you decide to get a new
>> computer, just pull the second drive before selling the old one and
>> install it into your new machine to become your boot drive-no other
>> transfers of data necesary.
>>
>> jj
>>
>> -
>
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