David
I have used Folders Synchroniser for this sort of thing for years.
Not all that fancy but seems reliable and not expensive. www.softobe.com
Alternatively SuperDuper may be more to your taste. www.shirt-pocket.com
Don't let anyone scorn you for displaying "backup paranoia" I have
five firewire drives on a firewire hub as well as two internal drives
in my G5 which are used for backup and other functions for the G5 and
MacBook including monthly creation of cloned bootable copies of both
computers, hourly Time Machine backups on the G5 and a schedule of
other selected backing up tasks of everything in sight. Some vital
stuff is additionally saved to data DVDs This comes from my paranoia
on this issue, engendered some years ago in the Physics Dept at UWA,
when my spectrometer control DEC PDP machine and my desktop Mac had
three disk crashes/writeoffs between them in the space of two weeks.
I really felt someone was out to get me then. So stick with as much
backing up as makes you happy and able to sleep at night.
Severin
On 13/05/2011, at 11:03 AM, David de la Hunty wrote:
Taking the discussion one step further,
I have a Time Capsule 1TB,
also an external 1TB USB HDD
Any tricks to setting up a regular complete drive-to-drive backup?
Paranoia backup manoeuvre but you deal with this stuff long enough
you do get burnt.
Does it have to happen from an "affiliated" computer ie rely on an
applescript for the purpose or can a backup routine be configured
either directly on the TC or in said affiliated computer?
dd
On 13/05/2011, at 9:53, Severin Crisp wrote:
No. Time Machine will not recognise a drive networked in this way
through an Airport Extreme.
Severin Crisp
On 13/05/2011, at 7:22 AM, Paul K wrote:
Hi Severin
But you can use the drive for TM backups across the network yes?
Not sure what you mean by virtual Time Capsule.
Cheers
Paul
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