I use mine as follows:- drive 1 is actually a big data drive - that's where I keep all my image data (digital photography is my thing rather than music). While I don't strictly need the extra space just yet I'm pretty sure I will do, so I took the decision to buy it now. So my data is spread between the Powerbook's internal 40 Gb drive (documents, some music, local email folders, etc) and external drive 1. Oh, I'm running 10.2.8.
I back up selected elements of these two data sources to external drive 2. Mainly what I back up is the actual data stuff - I'm not too worried about the system, I can recreate that. So I'm backing up my 'Home' on the internal hard drive, and the whole of the contents of external drive 1. I use Apple's Backup program to do this. I'm a .Mac subscriber, so backup was a freebie. I'm perfectly happy with it. I usually back up weekly - I'm prepared to accept the loss if something goes wrong in between - or at the end of a heavy session eg when I've just imported 50 new images.
As regards leaving the external drives on all time, I don't. If I'm not actually using them, I drag the drive icons into the trash and, once they've stopped whirring and have clicked 'off', I unplug the Firewire cable. Then when I need them I just plug the cable back in and hey presto they're back on the desktop. Oh, I have a Mk1 12" PB which only has one Firewire port, so in my case the two drives are daisy-chained.
Tom Burke
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:15 pm, G-Books wrote:
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:36:15 -0800 Subject: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External From: tivo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, folks. I recently purchased a 120gig La Cie external HD that is attached
by Firewire to my G3 iBook OSX, 900Mhz.
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