[DM-MUG] Fwd: Dr. Mac's Guide to Backing Up Your Mac -- The Mac Observer

[Ray Bowler]

kristau,


Yours is a good backup strategy and on my wife's I have one routine 
which she can use whenever she wants to do so. I use Intego's 
Personal Backup for this one.

Still I like a full clone done once a week using SD and then I can 
boot from it. The big negative is that even when doing a backup which 
just synchs it can take a while. Also you have to have large drives 
for the backups when you make two or three.  The big positive is that 
when her HD went south I was able to switch to the clone to operate 
for a few days.

At 1:21 PM -0600 3/4/07, kristau wrote:
>Since we are sharing backup strategies, here's mine:
>
>I do not back up the System or Applications folders, just my User
>folder and various detachable media such as a USB flash drive and a
>small external hard drive.  My reasoning is I can re-install the OS
>and applications from discs or downloads.  Because this is my home
>system, time to restore is not as critical as it would be for a
>business or production system.

-- 
Ray Bowler

rbowler.home.mchsi.com