[MacDV] Re: backup

[Matthew Guemple]

tons of great info thanks to all. I guess that having a bootable 
back-up is not as important as just having the data constantly backed 
up and updated.

>> From: Matthew Guemple <mo.og at verizon.net>
>>
>> I think you have a point Charles. Is there consensus about a good
>> cloning program?
>
> Well, there's always setting up a RAID, which of course mirrors drive 
> 1 onto drive 2 on a continuous basis.
>
> Assuming you're not going that route, then it seems like Carbon Copy 
> Cloner from bombich.com is a popular favourite, though I suspect 
> that's largely because of the price (donationware, suggested donation 
> $5). It is great for making bootable backups to secondary hard drives, 
> and can even be used to make non-bootable backups to CD-R/RWs (sort 
> of). Mike Bombich also has some really good info on his site regarding 
> the methods he uses for cloning, and discussion the CLI tools like 
> psych, ditto and so on.
>

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