Panther to Tiger with a bootable Lacie external

[dombort]

hmm. ok.

I guess I was thinking that my safety clone would serve as a 'safe checkpoint' where I know the system works fine. I can use it to 'revert' if there are problems.

If I run a system update, on my internal HD startup drive, and things dont work well, then I can boot from the safety clone, and presumably change my internal HD startup to be like the safety version .. no? Would I use smart update for this?

- Dom

[dnanian]

Well, you *kind of* can, but if you update a shared application (for example), that update will stay in place while other parts of it might get reverted. It just doesn't quite work as well when you're not booted from it!

[dombort]

ok, makes sense.. works better the other way..

Now...
What's the best way to remove that safety clone that I built on the external drive? I think I'm going to stick with using SuperDupers backup and scheduled backup capabilities for now.. and not use safety clone for the moment.

I notice that if i look in my Finder, I see multiple levels of 'Users' which is confusing..I assume that this must be a bi-product of the safety clones..?
See attached.

Thanks,
Dom

[dnanian]

That shouldn't have anything to do with the Safety Clone, Dom -- it's just showing you both the mount point (/) and "Macintosh HD", which is the drive that's mounted.

Why both are showing up, I'm not sure -- try rebooting.

Removing the Safety Clone would just be a matter of erasing it: but, keep it around. What I'd suggest is, next time an OS update comes up, update the Safety Clone, boot from it and install there *first*. Make sure it's OK, and if so, boot back and then you can install it on the main drive, assured that things are going to work on your system!