Bob,
Good to hear from you again. Hope all is going well for you.
I know when one posts a question there is no obligation on the part of
list members to respond so when none came I went ahead and dragged Merv
to the external HD.
Then last night your response came. Thank you for that. I am now
reconsidering my position!!!
The HD is a WD MyBookWorld 1TB and is for network backup - it has an
ethernet connection and a USB 2 for add-ons.
For the first backup the instructions suggest a direct ethernet
connection between computer and HD. I did that and 55GB took about an
hour to transfer. Tested access to some files. All OK.
The documentation for the HD says it supports HTTP, HTTPS, HFS+J,
CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP. Disk Utility does no 'see' the HD so I cannot check
as to its format. SuperDuper requires HFS+J, but I cannot check this -
clicking on the icon an selecting Get Info does not show format either.
I could try a User backup with SuperDuper and see how far it gets.
I have another HD with firewire as a bootable backup.
Thank you for your response.
Merv
On 28/08/10 6:00 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
Hi Merv,
Two things
1. that should only copy that folder and leave the oriiginal where it is
BUT
2. You will not want to do that because : -
Your Merv User includes a system User Library and that will not copy
exactly .
It would be better to use say Superduper to copy and it will put all the
Library things in the right way .
You could copy your own created files and folders out of the User Merv
by drag and drop .
Just don't try and copy the system generated " Documents Folder " as a
folder .
Good luck
Bob
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