I have been using CCC as my standard procedure for backing up my PowerBook (12"/867GHz/80GB) for quite some time now (over a year? backup every week or so). I also used it to transfer my system to a white iBook 14" as I my PowerBook needed repair (and transfered the system back the same way). For backup, I use an external 200 GB hard disk which holds up to three versions of my internal HD. For transferring systems I connect the target machine by FireWire and start it in target mode - it then shows up as a hard disk, and can transfer my system directly (after erasing the target hard disk - make sure you do not erase something important).
One tip that may once in a while be needed: in one instance I could not boot the target machine (iBook), don't know exactly why... Nevertheless, I simply used the copied system on the target machine from the source PowerBook, i.e. connect target machine in target mode, set its internal disk to be the start disk for my source PowerBook, and booted the source PowerBook while the target machine was still connected in target mode. That worked, and after booting the target system once form the source machine, I could also boot the target machine directly. Olaf -- callas software gmbh Olaf Druemmer Managing Director Schoenhauser Allee 6/7 D 10119 Berlin - Germany Tel +49.30.44390310 Fax +49.30.4416402 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:57:49 +0300 >Would CCC help transferring a set-up from one PB to another? I will soon >have to move everything to a new PB, and while many things are relatively >straightforward, there are also things which will need a lot of time if I >have to install them all from scratch again (those apps which have files >installed outside the app folder, especially TeX). > >FYI, I am using Retrospect Express which preserves previous back-ups. >This saved me when a database had been corrupted for over a week (as a >result of restarting), and the latest back-up turned out to be worthless. >A complete back-up overwrite would have left me in the cold. RE is not >the most intuitive piece of software around, but solid. > >willem > > >1:21 am Monday, June 7, 2004 cheshirekat cheshirekat sent the following >message: > >>On Mon, Jun 7, 200410:04 PM, the following words from Stephane Terreaux >>[EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ... >> >>>Le 7/06/04 à 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >>> >>>>I'm curious because I'm >>>>getting ready to reformat my internal hard drive now that my new external >>>>backup drive has finally arrived, so I want to be sure to backup >>>>everything required. >>> >>>I suggest you have a look at Carbon Copy cloner >>><http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html> >>> >>>With this software, and with a comfortable external drive, you don't have >>>to think much about what you need to backup ... >> >>I was considering CCC until I heard about a few glitches on other mailing >>lists that I'm not comfortable with encountering. One major glitch is >>that someone didn't have enough space on their backup disk and CCC didn't >>check for this prior to starting the backup. When the backup erred >>because CCC filled the drive as much as possible, there wasn't enough >>room for the user to access anything on that drive without errors. (I >>don't recall whether they were able to use another utility to salvage the >>data on that drive.) I shouldn't have that problem with my new backup >>drive since it is empty and twice the size of my internal drive, but it >>is a glitch that combined with other things I've heard about CCC makes me >>choose to stay away, at least for now. >> >>I'm trying out Apple's Backup application and LaCie''s SilverKeeper >>application. The Backup log shows that Backup didn't have any problems >>copying over all my PM files and preferences. Although I'm not sure I >>want to rely on a proprietary format backup to get to stuff on my backup >>drive. But some folders can't be copied directly to my external without >>errors related to invisible files. This was much easier to do with OS 7- >>9, IME. I may still use a combination of backup software and AppleScripts. >> >>-- >>Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. >>- Ned Rorem >> >>* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram * >> >> > > > >
