On 2011-01-28 09:04 , Eric Weir wrote:
One question right now. With my Time Machine/Time Capsule plus two other external drives, would it be feasible to backup content files, e.g., photo images and other content excluded from the Time Machine backups, and image the hard drive on my MacBook, especially the operating system and applications directories, to the same external drives?
yes, a few ways i can think of; it would be dead simple if you had partitions on your external drives for each purpose; or you could use Carbon Copy Cloner's feature "Protect root-level items on the target" -- i use this all the time to make full bootable backups to drives where i also have other data stored in top-level folders
if you use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a backup of just your images, it will want to put that folder in the same nested position as the source (e.g. "/Users/Eric/Pictures ..."), which makes such a backup incompatible with also cloning a bootable drive, since it's not on the top level, and will be overwritten/resynced; the solution to that is another option (in Preferences) "Clone to this subfolder on the target volume"
setting up these features can be fussy, but you can create set & forget configs with Carbon Copy Cloner, and even have them execute on a schedule; otherwise i'd just use command-line rsync
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