[X Newbies] Partitioning Drive?

[Steven Rogers]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 06:02 PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 5:55p -0400 2003.05.20, Florin Alexander Neumann wrote:
>> What do you use for regular backups? The pickings are fairly slim on 
>> the Mac, so I recommend Retrospect, which has a decent track record 
>> (if worse than miserable tech support). Here's an instance. The user 
>> has a PowerBook, a single partition. I teach him how to use 
>> Retrospect. I tell him to dump all files he doesn't need to back up 
>> into a folder called Junk, and show him how to exclude it from the 
>> back up when he does it. He forgets
>
> Then perhaps it would be more helpful to create Run files for this 
> forgetful a user. Basically, ensure that he just has to double-click 
> on one icon and his backup (with the proper filters) is initiated. Now 
> I hope he can remembers how to find his blank CDs.

It seems like Retrospect has my backup choices preserved so long as I'm 
backing up to the same storage set. Seems like the "Forgetful User" 
should just be able to hit return for all the choices, so long as he's 
just doing incremental backups on the same storage set.

SR