[DM-MUG] Minutes for May 22nd meeting: Backing Up

[Victoria L. Herring]

Tips & Tricks:  Ray Bowler shared with us and showed us the idea of 
Hot Corners to activate the screensaver and then setting your 
security to require authentication to get in.  All the settings are 
in the System Preferences area.

Ray presented on Backing Up.  A copy of his presentation in PDF is at 
the website for you to download.

The basic question is how much can you afford to lose?  It's not a 
question of if your harddrive will fail, it's a question of when. 
You need to set up a backup regime that will provide you some 
security from loss of data.  It's best to do a full back up and then 
do incremental backups.  Also, to make clones which will allow you to 
boot from them in an emergency ['bootable clones']

There is all sorts of media you can back up to:  floppies, CDs, DVDs, 
harddisks, online storage

Ray went through four programs that seem to be very good at backing 
up and making Bootable Clones:   When you search for them or others 
in Versiontracker.com, you'll need to search by both the word 
'backup' but also 'clone'

Carbon Copy Cloner by Bombich Software
Disk Utility [Apple's DU in the Utilities folder = see Restore tab]
SuperDuper
Intego Personal Backup

We held the raffle for the iPod Manual and Don P. won it.

We adjourned and then visited until a little before 9pm.
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, Travel Research & Photography site, 
<http://www.JourneyZing.com> [NEW: Athens/Greece Trip Report] ; 
Online Gallery at http://victoriajz.smugmug.com.  Images up now at 
Arte Gallery, East Village in Des Moines, and you can view them 
online at  http://web.mac.com/victoriaherring/iWeb/Gallery .