Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-07 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/6/06 12:58 PM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, TjL wrote: [snip] The fatal flaw to your plan is that it requires me doing all that. Manually. Manual backs are almost always out of date. (yes, to the 3 of

Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-07 Thread Lists
On Jan 7, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Frank P. Eigler wrote: *General* rule of thumb: greater use = greater risk of wear = greater risk of failure. But any BU is generally better than no BU at all. of course the long-standing hard drive controversy is what kind of wear is more damaging: being on

Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread R Michael Vogt
I look at superDuper and I have used Carbon Cloner. Bu If you are using Tiger There is better and faster way All you have to do is go into Utilities then go to Restore drag the source disk to the first blank then destaion to second blank then hit restore and it will make duplicate of

Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 06/01/06 08:13, R Michael Vogt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I look at superDuper and I have used Carbon Cloner. Bu If you are using Tiger There is better and faster way All you have to do is go into Utilities then go to Restore drag the source disk to the first blank then destaion to

Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread Howard Katz
I can recommend SuperDuper--I've been using it for months now to do a full backup of my HD. And I've tested the firewire drive as a bootable device after the program's done the backup--everything is where I put it, extras and all. It's pretty idiot-proof: something that helps ME out a lot. :)

Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread TjL
.. Original Message ... On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:13:49 -0700 R Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I look at superDuper and I have used Carbon Cloner. Bu If you are using Tiger There is better and faster way All you have to do is go into Utilities then go to Restore drag the

Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, TjL wrote: [snip] The fatal flaw to your plan is that it requires me doing all that. Manually. Manual backs are almost always out of date. (yes, to the 3 of you who do manual backups regularly, your discipline is impressive, but most of us fail to meet your level of

Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread TjL
.. Original Message ... On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:58:35 -0800 (PST) Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that would also seem to entail leaving your backup drive running all night, unattended. Seems a little risky, unless you've got an A/B backup routine going. Actually the last

Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/6/06 12:58 PM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, TjL wrote: [snip] The fatal flaw to your plan is that it requires me doing all that. Manually. Manual backs are almost always out of date. (yes, to the 3 of you who do manual backups regularly, your

Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread Clark Martin
At 3:03 PM -0500 1/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/6/06 12:58 PM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, TjL wrote: [snip] The fatal flaw to your plan is that it requires me doing all that. Manually. Manual backs are almost always out of date. (yes, to the 3

Re: Methods of duplicating boot drive (was: Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-06 Thread Harry Corsover
On Jan 6, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Clark Martin wrote: And, yeah, an A/B (or more) backup provides more protection. If any of the above mentioned acts happens during a backup then you are SOL unless you have multiple backups. And keeping one of these external drives off-site offers even more

HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-05 Thread Lists
So I've been using SuperDuper to make a bootable backup of my Powerbook (15 1.5Ghz) It works great. At least, that is, I think it does. Truth is, I don't know if it would actually boot if I needed to, and now that I've Googled around a bit, I can't seem to find out for sure. The

Re: HOWTO Boot Powerbook from Firewire drive

2006-01-05 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 05/01/06 23:09, Lists at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've been using SuperDuper to make a bootable backup of my Powerbook (15 1.5Ghz) It works great. At least, that is, I think it does. Truth is, I don't know if it would actually boot if I needed to, and now that I've Googled