[X-Newbies] Re: Backup strategy needed

[david_elmo]

> From: Mark Taintor <markwt at mac.com>
>
> I have a G4/533 running 10.2.8. 1 gig ram.  It has a 40gig primary
> internal drive, a 13 gig internal drive, and a 160 gig external drive.
> I'm down to just over 3 gb of free space on the main internal drive  
> and
> am getting nervous about the lack of free space. I have everything
> backed up onto the external drive using Superduper.
>
> What I'd like to do is to move my iPhoto and iTunes libraries to the
> external drive. This would free up about 20 gb and allow me to upgrade
> to Tiger. My concern is that I wouldn't then have a backup for my  
> music
> and photos.
>
> Now onto my questions:
> 1. If I partitioned my external drive into several partitions, can one
> of the partitions serve as backup for another partition? Is that a
> smart thing to do?
> 2. Would I be better off buying a larger internal drive and moving
> everything on my current 40 gig drive to something larger internally?
> 3. If I do go with another internal drive, what kind of drive should I
> be looking for?

I'd say to buy a bigger internal, archive some very important stuff  
to the 13 (to make it somewhat useful) and remove it and store it.  
Keep the 40 as second internal. Seagate or Western Digital, 7200 rpm,  
decent cache, say 8MB. You could put the 160 you have inside, and buy  
a bigger drive for the external (a firewire box say)

David Elmo