[X Newbies] Backup Question

[John Park]

What does it mean to synchronize?  And does carbon copy do an 
incremental back up as in just the stuff that changes?  Or does it copy 
the whole drive again no matter what.?
Thanks,
JP
On Sunday, July 11, 2004, at 04:45 PM, matblack at mac.com wrote:

> Personally I use Carbon Copy and copy my entire drive AND make it 
> bootable. Then every so often I "synchronize." I think the advantages 
> are apparent, if you have the disc space.
> m
>
> On Jul 11, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Bob Baron wrote:
>
>> Hi list - I recently acquired an external hard drive for backup (so I 
>> can sleep at night :-).
>> I am backing up the Home and Application folders weekly using deja-vu 
>> software.  I back up Quicken automatically to the HD after each use. 
>> I'm using Panther.
>>
>> Question:  Is there anything else I should backup regularly?
>>
>>
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