[X Newbies] Backup Question

[matblack at mac.com]

>> Personally I use Carbon Copy and copy my entire drive AND make it 
>> bootable. Then every so often I "synchronize." I think the advantages 
>> are apparent, if you have the disc space.
>
> Hi - a bit of a related question. You do have to have a bootable drive 
> to make the backup bootable, right?
I may be wrong? but I think any drive with a valid start-up system will 
boot... with CCC you just select the box "make bootable" and it does 
it. Then your drive is bootable.

> I figured I'd reinstall using original system disks if a problem, then 
> restore all backup files from Dantz Retrospect, which came with my 
> drive and I've been using without problems.
Does Dantz not give you a "make bootable" option?
The drawback to this these days is that even with Panther I had about 
an hour of updates to install... which of course did not execute 
properly so had to be repeated... and the Carbon Copy is only $20 or 
something...
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