Re: Best way to do a HD "back up"?

JohnB <john.brennand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK it's own up time - I have never backed up anything on my two home
> Mac's - G4 tower (733) and G4 book. Guilty m'lud.
>
> I have no excuse, that will stand up, other than to say that my work Mac
> is fully backed up automatically, nightly, on the network and quite a
> lot of what I have until recently considered important is on both home
> machines anyway. However more recently the home book is becoming my
> workhorse and i'm building up iTunes, photos, data files, etc., that are
> unique to the book and I dont really want to lose. Even so I am
> currently only using 30GB of the 80GB available (I clear out, or burn to
> CD, old photos etc regularly).
>
> So in the absence of an external HD (which I may rectify soon) I assume
> I could back up the book's HD on the G4 tower HD which has ~ 80GB
> "unused". So is that an acceptable short term solution ? If so what's
> the "best" way to do it. Boot in target disc mode via firewire and just
> copy across ? Do I need a free partition for this ? Also, do I need to
> use CCC ? How would I update the save every week or so?
>
> Both Macs running 10.4.3.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
>
Personally I just grab 'work' no applications or settings, so you can
either network [1] or TDM between machines. I normally leave out the
library folder which won't properly copy, but if you run mail, firefox,
mozilla, thunderbird then you may want to grab their files out of there.

If you want to copy everything, then I'd go for Carbon Copy Cloner, go
into the options and ask it to create a disc image on the target, this
will give you a dmg that you can then use netrestore or disc utility to
restore to a HD. The only problem with this is everytime you want to
back up you have to rebackup the full 30gb. With the other way, if you
know you've only changed certain folders, then you'd only have to copy
those across. I know for eg that my movies and iTUnes folder hasn't
changed, except for play counts, in the last 6 weeks, so neither need
any further backing up, iTunes is 12gb of backup saved already.

[1] Most new machines support IP over FW though you have to add this as
a new interface, so my works iBook and my home MDD G4 are configured for
FW networking to save having to reboot the iBook when I just want to
move some big files.
--
Jon B
real email to usenet at jonbradbury dot com
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