On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:45 PM, steve harley wrote: > 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
I'll be getting serious about this soon. I won two auctions on eBay yesterday for 1T WD/MyBooks with USB/FireWire/eSATA interface. I already have one 500GB USB MyBook. A thought is to use the latter for imaging the hard drive on my laptop and the other two to redundantly back up photo images and other bulky files/directories. I will not be able to automate the processes, though, as I'm normally work connected to the web via WiFi. Imaging and backing up will have to be done semi-manually, i.e., after connecting to the drives. I'm guessing that Carbon Copy Clone will allow me to save procedures so they can be executed with a single click. I don't understand your second paragraph. Sounds like you're saying there's some kind of limitation on my ability to specify target locations for backups. Whatever, will it apply when I'm using a drive only for backing up photo images, etc., not for also imaging my hard drive? While I'm at it, in case anyone is looking for low-cost hard drives, BestBuy is currently auctioning a bunch of the 1T WD/MyBooks that I got yesterday. Total price for the two I got was $140. Shipping is free. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- 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.
