Retrospect Express vs. Backup

[Charles Martin]

> From: Emma Gilbride <macemma at pacbell.net>
>
> I bought a 80Gg external firewire drive to do complete backups this
> weekend. Backup will not backup to a hard drive -- it will only use
> CD's or the iDisk. So I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner. First CCC froze
> right out of the gate. Then CCC got hung up on my desktop files. So I
> moved them all to various folders on the HD. Finally it succeeded
> creating a copy of my 20G HD. It only took 2 1/2 hours.

Something is very wrong there -- there's NO WAY that CCC should need 
that much time to back up a mere 20GB. I clone my 60GB drive in an hour.

You might want to reinstall CCC and give it another go.

> Now I have a question. How do I make a secure backup? After all, an
> external HD is even easier to steal than a computer.

Good question!

_Chas_

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