[G4] OSX and OS 9

[Crandon David]

Yes, but simply use Carbon Copy Cloner instead.

The way you are doing it does not copy everything, and you won't be 
able to boot from your backup.

David


On Oct 24, 2004, at 5:33 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

>
> On Oct 24, 2004, at 7:57 PM, VS wrote:
>
>>
>> The idea of backup (that was mentioned) is course a very important 
>> subject and having two physically separated drives (not partitions) 
>> is a very good method. But this is not my strongest field, I backup 
>> to CDs and DVDs, and not as regularly as I should... (bad Vicki, bad 
>> bad bad....).
>>
>>
>> / Vicki
>
> This may not be along the same line as the original post, but the part 
> about backing up reminded me of a question I have been meaning to ask. 
>  I back up my home directory to another hard drive.  I do it by 
> dragging it from my OS X disk to the back up disk.  When it starts to 
> copy though, I get a message saying that some things are not able to 
> be copied because of their permissions.  I click continue, and it 
> proceeds to copy.  When it gets done, I check the file size and 
> compare it to my home directory.  Both of them are the same (7.48 Gb). 
>  Fortunately I haven't been in a situation yet where I have had to 
> start over and use my backup.  Is there going to be a problem if that 
> day comes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
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