On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Doug Franklin <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > On 2010-01-31 6:42, Cotty wrote: > >> To wipe the main external drive and simply drag and drop the backup onto >> it? >> >> or >> >> To wipe the main external drive and use the backup software to allow it >> to do its thing and clone back onto it? > > I don't know about MAC specifics, since I'm a Windows and Linux sort of guy. > But I don't like using backup software, because it usually doesn't leave > the files in a directly accessible format on the backup target. So, I > generally just do regular file copies to the backup media. I don't > typically use the GUI for tasks like this, because I've found that on most > systems the command line tools for copying files work faster, since they > don't spend any time dinking around keeping the screen up to date. So, for > me, it'd be a small shell script or something that simply copies everything > I want backed up to the external drive. > > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) >
Most good backup software leaves readable copies of files on the destination drive when copying to a standard filesystem. I tend to use rsync-based backup strategies myself, but there's a zillion good options on Mac, Linux or PC that don't behave as you suggest. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
