[X4U] Duplicating?

[Mark Des Cotes]

I have a 60GB external FW drive in the closet. I can't clone my  
entire 250GB HD but perhaps I can clone the necessary files in order  
create a bootable drive. I have 4 users on this computer. What  
folders do I need to clone so that I could boot and restore if need  
be. I can restore the rest from the USB drive.

Mark Des Cotes
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On 18-Dec-08, at 1:36 PM, Jeff Carruthers wrote:

>
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18-Dec-08, at 2:57 AM, John Baltutis wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/17/08, Mark Des Cotes <lists at marksmandesign.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I know I can't boot from a USB2 external drive. If I make a  
>>>> clone of
>>>> my HD to the USB2 external drive using CCC, could I, if the need  
>>>> ever
>>>> arises, take the drive out of it's enclosure put it in a FireWire
>>>> enclosure and boot from it? Or do I have to make the clone directly
>>>> to a FW drive?
>>>
>>> Why go through all of that when you can just pop the HD into a FW  
>>> enclosure and
>>> leave it there. USB is significantly slower than FireWire.
>>
>> I have a iMac G5 and it only has FW 400 so USB2 is faster (at  
>> least I think it is). I already have a USB2 Dual enclosure with a  
>> RAID1 setup. The drive is partitioned into two parts the first of  
>> which I've cloned my HD to. I'm just curious if the cloned HD  
>> would boot my iMac G5 if I removed the drive from the USB2  
>> enclosure and put it in a FW enclosure. It's only for a worst case  
>> scenario. Should my HD ever fail I can run down to my local  
>> computer store and purchase a FW enclosure for the drive.
>>
>
>
> Mark: if I were you, I'd still get a Firewire drive and clone your  
> main hard drive and make sure it works. Drives are really cheap  
> these days and are good insurance.
>
> I'd be concerned that the Raid 1 setup would complicate things if  
> you tried to put only one of the drives into a Firewire drive in an  
> emergency.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jeff
>
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