[Ti] Backup suggestions

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 01:57  pm, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> If you use you Mac enough that a HD failure would ruin your day, then
> besides doing a daily backup of your Home folder, you need to be doing 
> a
> weekly Bootable System Backup onto a Firewire disk.  With a  Bootable 
> System
> Backup, if there is any failure in your computer, or even if it is 
> lost or
> stolen, you just plug your Firewire drive into another Mac of the 
> similar
> type, boot on it, and you're back in business.  If it's only the hard 
> drive
> that failed, you just boot your Mac off the Firewire drive.

I'm doing exactly the same thing with an external Momobay with Mike 
Bombrich's Carbon Copy Cloner.

Every week, it creates a duplicate of my boot volume on a partiton on 
the momobay.

Very useful.

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Tarik Bilgin
Opalblue
tarik at opalblue.com