[X4U] Backup strategies

[Jerry Krinock]

on 05/09/21 21:01, Neil at Lists at mac.com wrote:

> on 9/20/05 11:37 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
> 
>>> The important thing to realize is that the MacOS system software is
>>> installed for the Mac hardware on a particular model, and once you don't
>>> have that model, it's useless.
>> 
>> This is not true. I can boot my iMac G5 off of my iBook G4 and vice versa.
> 
> Even if you couldn't boot from your back-up drive to a new computer, you
> could still use migration assistant so that calling the cloned drive
> "useless" might be going a little too far.

Yes, I admit "useless" is a little too far, so let me revise my position:

All Macs come with appropriate system software installed, and working,
and you don't need to mess with it.  When disaster strikes, copy the
directories I listed in my original post to your backup Mac.

Also, I should mention that I was looking at the prefs in Synchrnonize! Pro
X earlier today and discovered that there is a way to to make it run in the
background.  My scheduled backups are now running without annoying me.