I want to write my own script, if just to prove I am still a ‘programmer’ but expedience will take over for the moment, I downloaded SuperDuper and the free version looks like it will do what I need. I will try it tonight on ‘Smart Update’ so it will just copy over the updated files…
Thanks for the advice, maybe one day I will sit down and write up my little script then maybe another day I will stop being ‘old school’ and move up to Time Machine. I’m just used to having a bootable backup as I have always worked with old computers, prone to failure and like the slight bit of extra security. I still would like to work on an ‘open source’ version of the OS X interface to work over Darwin, I dunno, just because. From the days of the Commodore PET I always wanted to be involved in writing my own OS… Russell Courtenay Sent from my old iMac > On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:16 PM, cb <c...@mythtech.net> wrote: > > Sorry, I should have said this in my other reply, but if you are really just > after an easy to use backup system that is free, assuming you are not on a > really old version of OS X, just use TimeMachine. Its pretty much set it and > forget it. It won't be bootable, however OS X's installation offers to > transfer data from a TimeMachine backup so you can at least reset back to a > bootable system. It just isn't quite as fast as having a bootable clone. > > You can also see if there are other clone options still available for free. > SuperDuper used to be free and did the same job as Carbon Copy Cloner, but I > don't know if they went the same way as CCC and have gone paid or not. > > -chris > <www.mythtech.net> > > > > On Aug 6, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Russell Courtenay wrote: > >> I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner for years to make a bootable >> (ostensibly) backup. Well, they seem to have changed their shareware setup >> so after a certain amount of time it stops working. I just don't have $39.95 >> to spend on software today so I figured I would write a script in Automator. >> But I really don't know what I'm doing. My programming really hasn't kept >> pace beyond Commodore Basic and machine language and Y2K web pages. >> >> I found some basic instructions online to make a scheduled backup but that >> is not really what I want. I just want a button I can click every couple >> days to copy every new file, delete files on the backup that I have deleted >> on my hard drive and keep it bootable in case I need it. >> >> Seems simple enough, has anyone here done this? >> >> On the wife's PC I just set up an xcopy batch file, simple and dirty. I wish >> it would tell me what is happening over those two hours it is working, but >> it does seem to work. >> >> Russell Courtenay >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
