[X4U] Pros and Cons of Time Capsule?

[Paul Moortgat]

I use SuperDuper and this is bootable.

Paul Moortgat

On 04 Dec 2008, at 23:21, John Baltutis wrote:

>>
>> It's time to replace my aging 80Gb USB1 and 60Gb Firewire backup
>> drives with something a bit bigger, say a 1Tb drive. Right now my
>> backups consist of dragging important files to the USB and FW drives
>> and using Backup along with my iDisk for my personal data and
>> settings. I'd like to automate the backup process using something
>> like Time Machine. I like the fact that  Time Capsule is from Apple
>> but is it really worth looking at or am I better off purchasing
>> another brand of drive? Right now I'm backing up the 250Gb HD on my
>> iMac but I'm looking into getting a MacBook for my wife that would
>> need to be backed up as well. What are the pros and cons of Time
>> Capsule?
>
> A couple of things to ponder. Time Machine's backup isn't bootable  
> (but neither
> were anything else you were doing) and is only verifiable when  
> restored.Get a
> large, bootable, ext FireWire HD, and partition it into at least  
> four parts.
> Two small ones for bootable backups/clones, using Carbon Copy Cloner  
> or
> SuperDuper!, and two large ones for Time Machine backups (whether or  
> not both
> machines can access separate partitions of the same ext HD is left  
> as an
> exercise). I'd get two HDs, one for each machine, with two  
> partitions. The
> beauty of having a bootable backup/clone is that you can immediately  
> verify
> that it does what it's intended to do. Personally, i have no use for  
> Time
> Machine stuff. My multiple, bootable clones are kept up to date.