Hi Ashley, The question here was not so much what to use as a regular backup but how to back-up the TM disk and still have the backup recognised by TM.
Yes CCC does pretty much the same thing as SuperDuper and both can do ³smart² updates where the only thing that is updated is what has changed. There are also other ways of ³synchronising² files/folders/drives. The thing is if you use SuperDuper (or CCC) to clone the TM drive, and then keep it updated with ³smart² updates and then your ³main² TM drive dies - will the cloned drive perform in the same way as the original did: * will TM recognise the cloned TM drive as the TM drive * will it be searchable as before for previous versions of a file * will you be able to ³restore² a file using TM as before * most importantly, for the first TM backup using the cloned drive, will it continue to incrementally backup or will it treat it as a ³new² drive and do a complete ³new² TM backup. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/5/11 12:59 PM, Ashley Mulder at ashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.au wrote: > I use CarbonCopyCloner as my regular backup software > I can schedule a regular update to my external drive (which i have) > and if the drive is not connected at the exact time its supposed to start, it > will auto start when it is connected > It only updated what is changed between the internal and external drive > > > On 13/05/2011, at 12:43 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> As you point out, the problem with your archiving solution is that you copy >> the entire drive contents a huge time-consuming task on a multi-GB drive >> whereas the beauty of the TM backup is it only copies the CHANGES typically >> a quick write of many small files. > > Ashley Mulder > BSc (Forensic and Analytical Chemistry) | (Forensic Science Hons.) > PhD Student (Chemistry) > Department of Chemistry > Curtin University > ashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.au > a.mul...@curtin.edu.au > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
