Re: New hard drive, need a plan...

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<doraymeRidThis-505388.10094025022006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I bought a 120GB 7200 RPM Seagate for my Quicksilver. Stuck it in
a firewire case and it seems very snappy (I think it is faster
than the standard 60GB one that came with the computer). I am
thinking of putting it inside the machine and taking the 60 out
into the external FW box for bu purposes only. Is it ok to
install a fresh copy of my Tiger (along with all the updates I
have kept) on the 120 before I move it, maybe even build it up to
have everything I want on it and then move it inside the tower
later and use it as startup. Is this a reasonable plan? Just
don't want to switch the drives while everything (touch wood) is
working reasonably well.

So far I have partitioned into 80 and 30 (so much for the
advertised 120 of the drive, how can 10GB be taken for
partitioning/formatting with journaled HFS+ - never mind, this is
not a big worry!)

Generally I want a plan to also keep a backup OS X that has all
the incorporated updates that I have so laboriously downloaded on
dial up and installed. A basic one, the one that is actually
installed using my DVD but with the updates. So that if I have a
big crash or whatever later, I can reinstall without having to
put in the original DVD, then - yawn - get my CDs where I have
the updates, install those and so on. Can one burn such a thing
to a DVD (I have not got a DVD burner at present, but perhaps
this could be a useful thing)? I am not meaning legal here (I
assume that if one owns the Tiger DVD and has all the free
downloadable updates, that one can keep an "updated" backup...
though feel free to correct this anyone), rather is it a safe way
of doing things...

If it was me I would use a program such as CCC or SuperDuper! (the
latter is my preferred choice) to make a bootable backup of the internal
Hard Drive onto one partition of the new external, then I would use the
external as my boot drive and use the internal hard drive as a back-up
and once again use SuperDuper! to make incremental backups to it every
day. No need to pfaff around actually putting the new hard drive into
the computer, simply boot from the external drive.

You can (legally and practically) burn a backup to DVD, but I personally
simply backup to a hard-drive... I also have a 'safety clone' backup of
just my basic system on another partition of my start-up disk, which is
bootable and allows me to at least start up should an update to my
normal boot system cause problems and those problems have already been
backed up during the daily incremental back-up procedure.

At least I can then start up and get to work without ever having to get
my original disks out.

Al.

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