Re: [muglo] Backup ?

> What is everybody using for making backup(s)?

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SuperDuper! and Time Machine too, on separate partitions of the same
160GB poocket HD. I do a SuperDuper! "smart backup" at least once a
week or oftener if I've just made some important change that seems to
be working as it should. SuperDuper!'s a cheap program, dead easy to
use and has the best support of any third-party software product I've
ever seen.  The backup copies it makes are readily bootable, which Time
Machine copies aren't. 

Sometimes, though, I'll change or add something to my internal HD and
go a week without discovering some adverse effect that it's had. When I
do my weekly SuperDuper! backup, that change ? adverse effect and all ?
winds up overwriting the better original version from the previous
week's copy. Time Machine gives me a chance to go back to before that,
and restore whatever it was that I shouldn't have killed out.

The ideal, I think ? I'm not sure whether it's fully feasible yet, but
it should be soon ? would be to have a biggish Apple HD with Airport
installed, sitting in your basement somewhere, being updated wirelessly
from your desktop Mac, both with SuperDuper! and Time Machine. If a
fire takes out your laptop, chances are it's going to take out any
backup drive that's in the same room with it, and if a burglar breaks
in, he's going to scoop not only the computer but anything attached to
it. A box in the basement stands a good chance of escaping both perils.

I hear CCC is also good, but considerably less intuitive than
SuperDuper! I've never used it, but the latest Mac World has a brief
comparison of them.
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