[X4U] Hard Drive Recovery How Ridiculous

[John Baltutis]

On 6/21/08,  Geoffrey Loeffler <geoffrey at alaska.net> wrote, among oither things:
>
> This is what still makes X flat out stink. You can not easily just
> back it up .  Now yes, I will be flooded with this works and that works and
>oh yes
> time machine and it's so easy.
>
> Well in practice, I don't think so, and I use a lot of methods
> including .Mac or Mr Cloud, or whatever they decided the silly name
> was. I also watch the average people who use the Mac and backing up
> is not part of their use pattern, why, it is not easy and intuitive.

In addition to Time Machine (requires running Leopard), Carbon Copy Cloner,
SuperDuper!, and Disk Utility, for example, are simple and inituitive. If
backing up isn't part of an average user's paradigm, then they've haven't been
paying attention.