[MacDV] Re: Backing up your machines\

[Matthew Guemple]

I've just spent most of the day messing around with various schemes.
I tried the Carbon Copy Cloner, which is rather difficult to manage in 
terms of specifying what you want it to do. Too many choices. Though 
this no doubt is quite nice for people who have very specific backup 
and sync need. It also kept giving me this "Disk needs repair" error 
message... without any clear information on how or what needed repair. 
Finally I just clicked "ignore" and it did the job quite nicely. The 
real drag of it is the scheduler is rather lame. Very poor options.

Basically I'm looking for something that's as simple as the good old 
pre OSX days. Select All > Drag to other HD > go have coffee. As much 
as I love OSX the whole "owned by root" thing is a drag. My concern is 
not losing my system... (good excuse to partition) I just don't want to 
have to reinstall all my apps, and have to sift through a bunch of CD's 
figuring out where the most recent version of a document should be.

I decided to go with ChronoSync. I can set it up so it runs once a week 
without having to figure out what the date would be (which one has to 
do with CCC) and seems to be dumb enough to fit my needs. I'm trying 
out the full version now, will let you know how it turns out.

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