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It does make sense. I've not encountered the idea of a Safety Clone before, & it would have helped prevent a dilemma that I'm now dealing with for a friend. Her iMac is currently stuck with some install problems relating to an upgrade to Panther & iLife04 from Jaguar & original iLife. I mistakenly ran a Software Update in between the two installs, resulting in the iTunes application being messed up & the Mac installer not operating correctly. Besides needing to fix this, I want this user to put a regular backup strategy into place. Certainly glad I found SD! I've used Retrospect & Carbon Copy Cloner -- neither is appropriate for an inexperienced user, IMO, and too much trouble/time consuming for me.
My concern for needing rolling backups dates back to my experience with minicomputer accounting software. Sometimes a user does not discover that something is missing or messed up for several days, enough time to make the backup worthless if it mirrors the messed up primary drive. It is especially problematic if many integrated files are involved in an application. such as accounting or iLife. I think we'll start with Daily & Weekly partitions on an external FW HD, & I'll have to delve deeper into scripts for automatic schedules. Lately I've been reading about iLife05 woes with missing albums, so I won't install my newly purchased package until I have a Sandbox in addition to my clones! |
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Completely understood, but note that with iLife 05, you'll definitely want to backup the main volume before installing: the Sandbox is enough to ensure iLife can be removed by booting back, but the data is on the main volume... I'm sure you know this, but I just want to emphasize it again!
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Oh, yes. I'll have full backups, in fact I'll have to in order to create a Sandbox partition on my main HD.
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Well, you don't *have* to -- you can use iPartition...
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Backups while using Safety Clone
So I have a full HD clone of my main system on an external drive, plus a Sandbox Safety Clone on my PowerBook HD. What backup procedure would I do while running off the Sandbox to backup my user data? Would I just continue to clone the main partition on the PowerBook, since that's where my user files are? I do have my external drive in 2 partitions, so I think I'd want to clone subsequent backups to the 2nd partition & leave the "before" Sandbox clone alone.
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Wow, once again, no notification that there were new messages. Something funny's going on... and I've fixed it. Phew!
To back up your user data (only), you'd use "Backup - user files", selecting the original drive in the first pop-up. Never select the Sandbox -- there aren't any user files there.
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