Greetings! If you are using or are planning to use multiple external HD make sure to purchase HDs from different manufactures. Our club in California suggested to our members that two external HD backups was three times as safe. Some of our members purchased Western Digital (WD) HDs. Unfortunately WD had a batch (large amount) of faulty drives shipped to the western US. You can see where this is leading. I keep a 64 MG flash drive for very important backups of files generated that day. Our data is important to us, be it photos, video, music or documents. When you lose a terabite HD, It's a traumatic experience. Be careful how you configure your back up strategies.
Cheers, Joe On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Dark1 <da...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Hi Neil > > There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally > most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms > of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap > these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a > mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your > prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. > > There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any > app that you have trouble running. > > I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a > separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of > Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. > > In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should > function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have > to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your > system files. You could always add a "10.5 Apps" folder to your > Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out > as you get them working with SL. > > Hope this helps a bit > Ruben > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I just got a new 27"iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question > from > > she-who-must-be-obeyed was "why do you need a new one - the old one is > only > > 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?!" > > > > Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows > > machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had > > crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24" iMac to > her > > (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when > we > > visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). > > > > So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not > all > > my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and > > system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from > scratch > > with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate > > everything from the old machine to the new machine). > > > > I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I > intend > > to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something > > like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up > redundancy > > and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop & > > laptop computer. > > > > I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a > > whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: > > - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. > > - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24" iMac HD > > - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra > > partition to suit my back-up regime) > > > > As I saw it, I could then pass the 24"iMac on to the mother-in-law (as > > everything was now on partition 2 of the 27" iMac) and slowly set-up the > SL > > partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27" from > > partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and > settings > > just as they were on the 24" without any worry as to what was SL > compliant. > > > > Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw > in > > my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in > > Leopard! - it seems to require SL! > > > > I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old > > machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL > > compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too > > much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade > > programs such as Parallels & Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office > > where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS > killed > > off VBA and I use quite a few macros. > > > > However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was > wondering > > was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt > to > > run my old applications from their current location in the applications > > folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an > > interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta > if > > necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the > apps > > folder on partition 1). > > > > The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually > > transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of > data/documents) > > or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the > case > > of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition > 2. > > > > I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts > as > > the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with > > accessing the old user folders on partition 2 > > > > When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a > > second media partition. > > > > However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put > certain > > things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular > > problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to > > the new one? > > -- > > Neil R. 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