Re: maintenance

Mr Ed Of Course said the following on 30/11/2005 12:24 am:

news wrote:

Just wondering what people here use for maintenance on osx. I remember
in pre-osx days it was more work; norton, diskwarrior and de-fragmenting
and so on.



The key thing about OS X maintenance is that less is more.


I use Carbon Copy Cloner manually every week or so for back-up. Tried
retrospect but it seems more complex than I need. The most I can lose is
a week's stuff, thats the most i gamble with and the odds seem very low.



I use Apple's Disk Utility for backing up.  It's a shame because the
original OS X Disk Utility didn't do cloning, and Apple snuck it in
there later.  As a result there are a plethora of shareware utilities
that aren't really needed (though some may have extra features worth
considering).  While runing DU, I will check SMART status on all my
internal drives.

Still on 10.3.9 here. I had a look but there doesn't appear to be those features in it. Maybe in a few months... 

Onyx does all the system level stuff, again about once a week. The
machine isn't on all the time so I think the cron jobs will be missed
(is this correct or will it do them after starting up?)



I run Onyx because it's free and easy and enables certain features.
It's not *really* needed though.


I still use disk warrior about once a month. Is there something in
darwin I can use instead for this?



Stop running Disk Warrior.  Turn on disk journaling.  If ever there is
a major problem with your drive (which most likely will be hardware
related), then try running Disk Warrior to retreive data that you lost
*if* you don't have a backup (which you always should).

Journaling is on. I spose DW is just a habit left over from OS9. I suppose I could put an applescript as a shutdown item and run CCC every day.

<snip />
Just stay away from anything Norton/Symantec, don't defrag, and don't
run any virus protection. You'll be fine.

Never have on a mac. Well i played around with that freeware one that seemed to be on all the mag disks back in System 7. Before that was a PC but I have no memory of that.
Andy
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