On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:16 AM, g3-5-list group wrote: > > == 2 of 4 == > Date: Thurs, Jan 8 2009 2:28 pm > From: Charles Davis > > On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:37 PM, nestamicky wrote: >> >> >> Al Poulin wrote: >> >>> I want to use a 1TB external Firewire hard drive initialized in >>> Apple >>> Partition Map to make bootable clones of a PPC G4 iBook and two or >>> three Intel Macs. Each source machine will have its own partition >>> on >>> the FW drive. I plan to use "Incremental backup" for File level >>> copying. >>> >> Your project here is perhaps the best yet use of larger harddrives >> I've >> seen in a short while. Most of us do file servers, but your idea >> hear to >> have bootable partitions of all your systems on an external HD is >> great, >> as it will save you so much time when something goes wrong. >> >> My question, and maybe Dan would pitch in, do size of the partition >> on >> the machine and that on the external drive have to be the exact same? > > Not DAN, but my opinion anyway, > > The partitions need to be big enough to hold the amount of data > involved. > > I.E. A "BOOT" partition, has to include vacant space to be 'run- > able' !!! > A copy (clone) if you are not going to BOOT --- THAT partition, > doesn't need to include that space. > BUT, to check that things took properly, and so that you CAN > operationally boot the 'clone', you will need to have that > 'space' (less than 10% available 'empty space', leads to operational > problems. [Don't ask how I know])
Thank you, Charles. You know through conventional wisdom. Or, with small drives or volumes like a 40 GB drive, allow at least 7 GB of free space. >>> Is there any utility in having a separate, bootable "universal" >>> volume >>> on my FW drive with its own copy of CCC? > > If you 'cloned' your OS partition, doesn't it include your copy of > CCC? It should, and when you boot that 'cloned copy' it will have > CCC right ready there to use. [Just like you planned it!!! ;-)] Understood, but the CCC documentation was ambiguous as to what a "boot drive" is, to the point of saying to boot from a drive other than the boot drive. So, having a separate bootable volume for all machines seemed to be a way to have that third drive. > >> >>> Looking at CCC documentation for >>> backing up "to another Macintosh on your network," it appears that >>> this method cannot maintain a bootable clone, since the context >>> deals >>> with "selected data" to a "folder." Correct? >>> > That may be a problem, doing 'incremental' updates to the 'cloned' > copy. [I think it SHOULD work.] That seems to be an angle to try out. I will put some mileage on this whole project before I attempt messing around in the root accounts to make this network thing work. But only if someone can tell me that it WILL work. Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
