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

In article <justal-CB5D14.06484125022006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Cole <justal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

snip

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

Ah, but in my case, I don't fully trust my present internal set
up, software-wise (I was a bit how's your father in rebuilding it
after a previous crash and imported all sorts of things from
another of my machines because I could not face re entering so
much stuff I had lost and while it all seems fine, I want to
build from scratch a very conservatively correct startup, adding
things only after knowing what I am doing better.

I will also make backups of my present arrangement, your points
are good. I got this CCC down just now and will take a look.

I think I may have asked this before, - what was the answer? -
has not Tiger got built in facilities to copy an existing working
startup hard disk to another hard disk or a DVD (I assume a CD
would be too small for even any basic X)? Presumably it has not
got fancy "incremental bu" algorithms, but what about the basics?
Do you need anything at all! What about just dragging stuff over
and simply copying?


You can (legally and practically) burn a backup to DVD, but I personally
simply backup to a hard-drive...

And make it bootable?

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.

Yes, I will do this as well, thanks.

--
dorayme
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