[P1] External HD setup

[Joe Jones]

In addition to David's info, it's possible that the drive you have was 
pre formatted in Fat32 or or some other PC filesystem - macs will mount 
and use pc file systems (except ntfs) out of the box but there are 
issues.

I don't know that CCC would even attempt to back up to anything other 
than an HFS+ drive if that's what the source is (and it is highly 
likely to be if you're using OS X).

Joe

On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 17:19 Europe/London, david wrote:

> On 9/13/03 11:26 AM, "Brian Olesky" <brian4 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> A few weeks ago I got a new external hard drive, downloaded Carbon 
>> Copy
>> Cloner, and copied the contents of my internal drive onto the external
>> drive. However, I've since read (on this list and in a MacWorld 
>> article)
>> that I was supposed to format the new drive first. Although it seems 
>> to be
>> working okay anyway, is that something I need to go back and do with 
>> the
>> disk utility software? Could not having formatted it be the reason 
>> that
>> Carbon Copy Cloner seems to hang up a lot when I use it? Are there 
>> any other
>> issues involved in not pre-formatting the external drive? And if I go 
>> back
>> and format it now, are there any advantages to having partitions? All 
>> I
>> really want the drive for is to have a backup of my stuff, and to 
>> store some
>> seldom used files that are threatening to outgrow my internal 20 gig 
>> hard
>> drive.
>>
> The external drive mounted so it was obviously formatted. I think the 
> issue
> about formatting is to make sure the drive is empty before using CCC. I
> maintain a lab of OS X machines and I used CCC to roll out Jaguar and 
> a host
> of updates before the semester began. On my first attempt to clone to 
> the
> external firewire, CCC froze. I decided it might be a memory leak so I
> copied the drive in two passes rather than one. That worked and I did 
> the
> same when I copied that clone to my 29 other machines. Four times 
> during the
> day CCC froze during the process of copying the clone to the other 
> machines.
> I think it is just the nature of the beast. I'm now evaluating 
> commercial
> software for cloning since, besides freezing, CCC is also quite slow.
>
> If you are just backing up (as opposed to cloning a bootable drive) 
> give
> Deja Vu a look. It is configured using a system preference pane and 
> can be
> set up to copy any folder to another location - including a CD or DVD. 
> You
> can create manual backups but it also allows daily, weekly, and monthly
> scheduled backups at a specific time. I use it now on both my iBook and
> desktop for backing up data.
>
> david
>
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