At 8:55 PM -0400 9/26/2008, diane wrote: > >I want to make the 2nd drive into a bootable backup. Is SuperDuper >the best choice?
yes. Using Disk Utility, partition the drive to something reasonable - that will hold your boot volume. The rest can be used as backup volume(s) for other volumes or whatever. .... Optional: I never trust hard drives. The first time I initialize them, I always zero them - at least one pass - to make sure the drive is FULLY functional. On subsequent backups, remember to use SuperDuper's Update mode. That makes the destination look like the source without having to copy everything every time. Runs very fast! :) >I currently use ChronoSync but it won't will make a bootable drive /me makes that odd scrunchyface I'm thinking that product should not be on your Mac... any Mac for that matter. \\Caution: the following is opinion / sem-rant. I've had a lot of coffee today.\\ Except for backing up your *user* files, I would never ever trust any backup tool that's unable to make a bootable volume. The difference between a complete backup and a bootable backup is trivial. If the developer isn't able to cross that hurdle then something - perhaps a lot of data - is missing! Ok. I Just googled ChronoSync... apparently the latest version, 3.3.6, not only isn't able of creating bootable volumes (backups) (clones), it doesn't even get the file ownerships and permissions correct on what it does copy!!!!!! What? Read that again. The files it creates are are INCOMPLETE. They are missing some of the most important metadata. And if they're missing that, what about their basic data forks? Are they intact? sigh. Gotta push this point home. Back in *** 2006 ***, Bruce pointed us to a great review of backup softwares (url below). In that article, ChronoSync 3.2.1 is rated ***NOT RECOMMENDED***. A note is included that says the developers will be addressing the ownership and permissions (and other severe) issues in an upcoming release. So here we are, 2.5 years later, and the product STILL has the SAME CRITICAL PROBLEMS. <http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/> - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
