What's the interim (Leopard) backup recommendation?
I'm feeling a bit nervous/vulnerable...10 days now without a "real" backup of my laptop which was updated with Leopard on the release date. Photos, music, documents, software updates, etc. are being added at an alarming rate. And the further I get away from 26 Oct (Leopard release), the more time it's going to take to recover from a catastrophic failure of a HHD or unrecoverable disk corruption.
So what's the interim recommendation until a Leopard-compatible SuperDuper! is released? Should I just plug in an external drive when convenient and let Time Machine do its thing? And then use the Time Machine restore function to rebuild the internal laptop drive if I had to? That's not very fast for sure but I guess it will work as long as I also have the Leopard install disc at hand. But what about an internal laptop drive failure? Is there a way to install the Time Machine backup on a second external drive and "bless" it as a bootable drive...thus allowing the laptop to function while a replacement internal drive is being procured? Or is there another (already Leopard-compatible) application which will allow me to make a bootable clone of my Leopard install to an external drive? I'm starting to feel "unprotected" and need some suggestions please. |
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As a temporary solution may I suggest using Carbon copy Cloner! I cloned both of my macs and while experimenting with Leopard did a dumb thing (Not uncommon for me!) Having a clone saved a lot of time for me. BUT be assured when SuperDuper is ready CCC will disappear.
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It depends what your standard backup practise is. When I was using SuperDuper! on Tiger, every night I did a smart-update backup to a drive I call Clone. To duplicate this, I do an erase-destination-and-copy thing with Disk Utility. It's not automated/scheduled, of course, so I manually fire it up every night. And of course the more data I have, the more time it takes, since it's not a smart update, so I just let it do its thing while I'm asleep.
I'm making an effort to minimise app clutter for the time-being, using OS X's own utilities before looking elsewhere. Since I know that the app I want is SuperDuper!, I'll only have to uninstall CCC when we get a Leopard-compatible from Shirt Pocket, so I thought I would try Disk Utility in the meantime instead. It's been working fine for me. Hth. |
I've been using CCC once a week since it can't do "smart backups" and using Mozy online backup for daily stuff. I miss SuperDuper but so far I've been Ok using this method. Haven't started using Time Machine yet since I don't want to use my current external for it - waiting on Black Friday to purchase.
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In the meantime, I'd suggest using Time Machine, as I did in my post about Time Machine and Leopard. It does a good job of saving things, and while you won't have the immediate recoverability that SuperDuper! can provide until we release our Leopard version, you will have a backup should something occur.
Remember that the two programs are complimentary solutions. Either can stand on its own, of course, but they're better together. |
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You might want to check out Jungle Disk, which I also use as a complement to Super Duper. Even though it's not a bootable clone, I can back up my important files and have an off-site backup.
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Another option can be found in this thread re: using disk utility in the mean time
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/s...5010#post15010 .. |
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I've been using Time Machine and am quite happy with it.
However, I can't vouch for the full system recovery aspect of it (since I haven't had to do so). That is something that I *can* vouch for with SuperDuper! My impression is that SD would be much faster and easier to recover from a hard drive failure. |
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CCC takes almost exactly one hour to do its "changed files only" update. SD takes 20 minutes. The latter is a nice coffee break; the former is a PITB... Looking forward to the Leopard release, too... and that's why. |
Time Machine has been doing the job for me since my upgrade. It has done well. When SuperDuper! goes online, it will pitch in too. I want to have SD do the smart backup on my USB 1 TB hdd and Time Machine to do a backup over the network to a drive plugged into my Airport Extreme Base Station N gigabit. Hopefully, 10.5.1 will fix that for me.
Together, they will truly be the best solution. Time Machine is great for getting those files back from a few weeks ago while SD always did a great job of getting me up and going like a champ in a snap! SD can't come soon enough. |
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