Backup Question

[Charles Martin]

> From: Anne Keller-Smith <earthpigz at earthlink.net>
> Hi - a bit of a related question. You do have to have a bootable drive
> to make the
> backup bootable, right?
>
Under OS X, any IDE or FW hard drive is bootable. USB 2.0 as well, 
IIRC, and I can't remember about USB 1.1.

CCC has a checkbox where you specify that you'd like the clone to be 
bootable. This does nothing to the drive -- the only difference is that 
it copies the invisible non-writable files that OS X needs to boot.

I'm not dissing Retrospect here -- it's a fine product that works for 
many. I'm just saying that if you'd like a FAST recovery from a crashed 
HD, nothing is faster than having a bootable, exact clone of your 
entire HD sitting on an external hard drive ready to go.

_Chas_

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