[X4U] Back up ideas/suggestions needed....

[Ed Gould]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> Ed,
>
>> Currently I have a G5 with 4GB of RAM and 300GB of HD (internal)  
>> space(10.4 with no plans to go to 10.5 ever) and an external HD  
>> with about 400 GB (370 used) of two external drives.
>
> I don't understand this description. Are you saying you have two  
> external enclosures, each with a 400 GB dive in it? Or are you  
> saying you have two drives in one external enclosure? Or that you  
> have two 200-GB drives in two enclosures, totalling 400 GB?

Daly: I have a TOTAL of 400 GIG (200G internal and 200G external)
>
>> I use one of the external drives to back up my system to and have  
>> 3 copies of backup for my system.
>
> Where does the third copy come in. You described two external  
> drives. Do you have a third?
>
> <snip>
>
>> Essentially every saturday morning  I delete the 3rd copy (takes  
>> about 2 hours)
>
> Why don't you just reformat the external? Takes a few seconds.
If I did that I would loose all my backs. each drive (backup) is a  
folder. I did it this way to keep it simple and although 10 minutes  
of my time to move my backup files around between folders it is  
simple and straight forward. and only a small margin of error.
>
>> and then shut my 7X24 connection down and stop all applications  
>> like email and web and my usenet reader. I then use "personal  
>> backup" to backup the HD of my G5.  This takes approximately 4-5  
>> hours.
>
> I would suggest SuperDuper, which will make a complete bootable  
> clone in about 1.5 hours.
I had thought about that but IIRC superdupper is essential shareware  
and semi supported.
>
>> To summarize: I need  a way in case of disaster to recover my  
>> system in a reasonably timely fashion (hopefully in less than 24  
>> hours). My plan to hand carry my backup drive as I leave my place  
>> is a big hole in my system. I have severe memory issues due to a  
>> stroke and I am afraid I will forget to unhook my drive and carry  
>> it out with me in an emergency.
>
> I leave it to someone else on this one. I do  not know of any fast  
> or even reasonably fast way to back up remotely.  Maybe set a  
> reminder to flash at you every day or two from iCal, to remove your  
> hard drive in case of emergency?

SIGH I wish it were that simple. I have my medication schedule on  
ICAL and I frequently forget to take my medications. A friend has  
found a possible way around it and we are trying it with mixed  
success. Not to go into any detail but I am on 20+ meds a day and I  
do forget at times to take them. I need an extra alarm for meds since  
ICAL doesn't have one of these alarms that keep ringing until you  
dismiss it a feature I would truely love to have.
>
> Daly
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