I'm on the verge of getting a bootable external hard drive. Presently I have two - a Fantom and a Maxtor, non-bootables, around 200 gigs each. They are meant to be dupes of each other, contain my user folder and archives. (Altho the archives are not *quite* dups any more if you want me to be honest, as one drive is at the safe deposit box and one at the house, so it's hard to compare if you know what I mean.) The Maxtor came with some software I've been using for backup, but I don't like the wierd single file it generates, so did this only once and then did just copy of things with it, which seems to work well, more or less.
As you know, the G4 did some weird things earlier this week, so I was glad to have the external! And it wasn't bad, files just copied over to the new iMac very well. I just downloaded CCC - coupla questions: 1. I feel like making two separate backups, one of my whole drive and then one of my user folder, as if I backup every couple of days and the system does something weird, wouldn't it be better to have a system to revert to? 2. Can CCC do this? 3. Does CCC copy things in a way that I can look at them, unlike the file the Maxtor software created? I use the external to rescue things from time to time if a file gets corrupted or I erase it or save over it by accident, and want to just get back this one file. 4. Is Time Machine still a flaky app? (It is sitting here right in the dock, but I remember hearing wierd tales awhile back) 5. In case of system problems, kind of how does it work with a bootable drive? Can you copy back everything, even the system? Fonts, settings, drivers? That's the idea, right? Thanks in advance to those who know! Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 Intel iMac 2.66gHz Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM, 264GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.6 mailto:earth...@ptd.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
