On 2011-02-01 06:16 , Eric Weir wrote:
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'm guessing that Carbon Copy Clone will allow me to save procedures so they
can be executed with a single click.
yes, you can save procedures, and run them manually, schedule them, and
i just noticed you can trigger them "when target is reconnected" with an
option for user confirmation -- i didn't realize that had been added
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.
right -- it's hard to describe abstractly -- CCC will by default put
files at the same path on the target as on the source drive, so if you
are using the same drive for two types of backups, this can cause one
backup to overwrite the other; the options i mentioned work around this
Whatever, will it apply when I'm using a drive only for backing up photo
images, etc., not for also imaging my hard drive?
you won't have any conflicts when doing so, but you may still prefer to
modify the destination path; if you are just syncing images to a
dedicated drive, i would probably use generic rsync, which is more flexible
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