Power Cut

[Tom Lawrence]

Originally Posted by dnanian

You could partition a drive into two volumes, but that wouldn't afford you the protection you're looking for.

Ah -- you're running 220V, which is different than the US voltage -- it's unlikely any UPS I pointed you to would work, alas...

Thanks anyway David. At least I now know again what a UPS is(been away too long....) and also i will take your advice and shop around. Should have gone the Computer Shop route in the first place rather than an electrician.

At the end of the day buying another external disk is also probably good value.

Not sure that partitioning is such a good idea these days but never say never.

One observation re using SuperDuper which I picked up from MacWizard on the MacFixit columns and which works well in practice for me: run DiskWarrior and Repair Permissions on the source before running SD; then run DW and RP on the clone before testing. Maybe it just gives you a nice warm feeling but, for what it is worth, DW has picked up some minor errors on the clone each time and then corrected them.