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Originally Posted by dnanian
You don't live on the sandbox forever, Martin -- when you're happy with what's on it, you update the main volume to that state, and then update the sandbox to reflect the new "checkpoint".
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So what is the ideal situation?
Say I have an iMac (I don't but I want to get one soon).
Internal drive: Mac HD
External drive.1: sandbox
External drive.2: full system backup
So I create a full backup and the sandbox. I install some programs, I test them out for a week or so. Things are going well.
Now I create a full backup of ... what? The Mac HD?
Then I copy the sandbox to the Mac HD. That makes a checkpoint for the system.
Then what do I work off of? Is the Mac HD just a failsafe? Do I go back to the sandbox and muck around in it again?
I'm also a little confused about something else: rarely is my system ever in a static state. I'm always trying out some new program in the hope that it'll work more efficiently than its predecessor. how does one manage that?