OS 10.1 includes SoftRAID. For disaster recovery, mirror your drives & do hardware redundancy. Aliases will no longer be an issue, and you will not have to restore your data. Just go buy a new drive mechanism when you hose one.
- gregor42 > -----Original Message----- > From: Cranz, Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:29 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution > > > > > Earlier, Merlyn-sama quoth: > > > OK, I'm frustrated. I want to use OSX, badly. But I can't put it > > into production until I can do the following: > [.....1,2,3,4...] > > I've been using Retrospect to do this. Of course, the copy when it > > comes back has bad aliases, but at least I was able to boot > and get to > > the stage of fixing the aliases (using FileBuddy, usually). > > > > Now OSX comes along, and aliases are used from the moment of boot! > > /etc is an alias to /private/etc. I can't even wake up! > > /me bows humbly... > > Dantz has released a public beta for Retrospect for OS X. I > humbly suggest > you investigate it. > > HTH! > > - gregor42 >
