> On Mar 25, 2015, at 7:09 AM, Myles MacVane <myles.macv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I may be wrong about this, but I think that some external hard-drives come > with their own back-up software. I would put the question to Other World > Computing at: > > http://www.macsales.com > > And Apple has its own backup Time Machine plan.
Both Western Digital and Seagate branded external drives come with software of unknown (to me) utility, since they’re always immediately repartitioned for Time Machine use :-/ Personally (and in my experience managing a ton of macs) I’ve never experienced the kind of corruption Dan has had with Time Machine. It’s always ‘just worked’. I’ve had external drives fail before, but fortunately never at the same time as a main volume. No, you cannot boot from a Time Machine volume, so if you absopositively must be capable of continuing to work in the event of a drive failure, without stopping to replace and re-install the failed drive, a bootable backup is desirable, and in my experience CCC or SuperDuper fulfill those requirements. However, also in my experience Time Machine has saved people’s bacon more often through it’s ability to roll back changes in documents or recover deleted files many days after the fact than recovering from a failed drive, and in one case provided a needed audit trail to prove when a document was modified. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
