Re: .mac account/duplicating my user file on a second mac

In article <BF59C1C8.4932%ericjiannelli@xxxxxxxxxx>,
"Eric J. Iannelli" <ericjiannelli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> in article bux-F939D8.00004423092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bux at bux@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote on 23/9/2005 06:00:
>
> > It's not meant to sound snarky and sorry if it sounded that way. I
> > suppose it was my way of asking what it was intended to do and how do
> > people use it.
>
> No worries. Could just be my thin skin.

I live in NYC, I'm not used to dealing with that species. ;-)
>
> >
> > I currently back up every night (pretty much). I do a full back up to an
> > external HD using SuperDuper which I prefer to Carbon Copy Cloner, but I
> > really can't remember why. I own one copy of each. I should go back and
> > take another look at CCC and see what it does better or worse, but SD
> > seems to do the full back up, I mean the back up of my full drive, very
> > quickly after the first time as it only backs up the changes.
> >
> > Everytime I think I should give .mac a chance, I take another look or
> > ask another question and decide it's not for me. What I am interested in
> > doing besides backing up, is to clone my user file from my desktop iMac
> > G5 to my wife's PB G4 when we travel. I really only need a core group of
> > things besides mail, addressbook, and browser settings, cookies,
> > keychains and the like. The applications I will need to use are already
> > there. I probably only need my documents and my library. Can I drag them
> > back and forth over a network? Both computers are now running 10.4.
>
> SuperDuper costs $20, and since I'm already shelling out for .Mac :-), I try
> to stick with freeware. CCC under Panther had a sync (as opposed to full
> clone) option that only replaced newer files. There's also an option to make
> a bootable HD clone. I haven't used CCC at all in Tiger -- in fact, your
> post was what prompted me to download it again.

Syncing two folders might well have been a feature of CCC that I miss in
SD, which appears only to let me clone a volume. I also recall getting
many messages asking me to repair permissions with CCC. SD seems to do
that itself flawlessly each time I run it. I've yet to run a clone
operation and not return to the computer and find it completed without a
hitch. It will also run in the background while I'm working. I assume it
misses open documents of course, but it doesn't falter. I did get tired
of having to do it only at night and sprung for the twenty bucks to
reduce the time to minutes.

>
> Your G5 -> G4 sync is precisely why I like .Mac. One click and all my
> contacts etc are synced from my iMac G5 to my wife's iBook G3, which is our
> travel computer. I drag and drop my handful of current "in progress"
> documents to the appropriate iBook folder via a simple network share. I
> personally see no sense in copying my entire user folder, especially when it
> would fill up her 10GB HD about three times over with photos, documents,
> music and Application Support files for applications that aren't even on the
> iBook; but you might require older stuff for reference. As long as you copy
> the right files (including all the prefs and Application Support) to the
> right location, and none of the relevant apps are running at the time, there
> should be no reason why you can't copy what you want off your iMac to the PB
> over a network.

Dragging full folders ensures not only that I'll have any odd document I
might want to see, but reduces the risk I'll leave something behind that
I might need. For me it would make sense to leave a large photo file,
but application support and full user library would be useful. That
would also seem to remove most of the need for .mac, with the one
exception that while traveling, I can't really back up except to
CD-R(W). My understanding is that all of my bookmarks, addresses and
mail are stored in the user library (a large folder, twice the size of
my document folder, but still manageable on my laptop.

I seem to recall getting an error message the last time I tried to drag
my entire user file, but it may have been because I had forgotten to
close a program now that you mention it.
.

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