[G4] Backup Strategy for G4 to Ext Dive

[Dave March]

>From SuperDuper Guide.pdf, page 5:

"USB drives cannot be used as a startup drive for
PowerPC based Macintoshes, regardless of the program
used [...] So, if at all possible, please get a
FireWire drive!"

Firewire?  Yes.

USB?  A most definitive and unequivocal, "NO."



--- Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On 18/8/2006 8:04 AM, "Richard M. Kriss"
> <rmkriss at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have a G4 1GHz AGP and new external USB 2.0
> external drive.  I have a
> > Belkin USB 2.0 card installed in the G4 so USB 2.0
> is not an issue.
> 
>  
> > I realized a G4 Power PC cannot be started from an
> external drive.
> 
> The whole point of a clone with SuperDuper is that
> it is bootable. Of course
> USB would presumably slow things down, maybe too
> much, others would know
> better than me. But in the event of a catastrophe I
> fully expect to boot
> from the external drive and then use the copy of
> SuperDuper there to clone
> in the reverse direction.
> 
> I actually have 2 external drives both with bootable
> clones on them as an
> insurance policy. I am unlikely to loose 3 drives
> all at once, and if an
> external drive expires I still have a working
> bootable back up while I get a
> new external drive.
> 
> 
>    My
> > question is the best way to use the external drive
> for backups.  Should I
> > use SuperDupper to clone the primary to the backup
> or should I make an image
> > of the primary drive and save the image to the
> external drive?
> 
> I follow the recommended procedure from SuperDuper
> which is to clone in
> preference to making a disk image. They point out
> that making a disk image
> is slightly less reliable, and should be used only
> in special circumstances
> > 
> > If I SD clone the primary to the external backup
> drive then remove the
> > cloned drive and install the inside the G4 should
> it then boot?
>  
> That is my understanding of the SuperDuper
> information. Why not contact them
> in order to clarify some of these issues. They are
> friendly folk.
> 
> Tony
> http://www.tonyjohansen.com
> A Life Of Art
> 


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