Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: > At 1:11 AM -0400 9/23/09, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> At 11:41 PM -0400 9/22/09, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>>>> What are people using for this? >>>>> >>>>> I'm looking at SuperDuper. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Disk Utility >>> >>> >>> Doesn't do it. >> http://macs.about.com/od/backupsarchives/ss/diskbackup.htm >> >> " I'll use OS X's Disk Utility to perform the backup. It has two >> features >> that make it a good candidate for backing up a startup disk. First, >> it can >> produce a backup that is bootable, so you can use it as a startup >> disk in an >> emergency. And second, it's free. You already have it, because it's >> included >> with OS X." >> >> I did it. >> >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> > > > Hi Mark, > > Disk Utility does a very basic backup. Everything else will do a > backup that can be updated with minimal time involved, has more > options and to one degree or another can be automated. As a general > purpose backup (that can be maintained in an up-to-date fashion) CCC > and SuperDuper are miles ahead. And if you want free, CCC is free. > There are some others as well, but these two are the front runners. you can use Time Machine which is absolutely wonderful, and put it on the same harddrive as Super Duper...then you have a bootable drive, 2 backups, and the ability to selectively restore any file, from any time... Steve > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information