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Use Disk Copy / CCC for full backups
Authored by: Paul Burney on Apr 30, '03 11:07:03AM

After trying the full Retrospect app, the retrospect client to a
server at work, and a few other tools (hfsPax), I'm pretty much
just using Disk Copy and Carbon Copy Cloner to make my
backups.

Attach a FW drive and in disk copy select "New image from
device". Select "Read Only" as the format so it doesn't take up
unnecessary space. It takes a couple hours for me to back up
my 30 GB of data.

When I need a piece of data from backup, I can just mount the
image. If I need to reformat, I just wipe the drive and use
Carbon Copy Cloner to move the contents over.

This way preserves the resource forks, symlinks, aliases, etc.
CCC also makes sure the necessary symlinks (mach.sym, etc)
are in place so there won't be problems booting.

Note, this method is obviously for full backups only, not
incremental ones.

BTW, my problem with Retrospect Client is that sometimes it
takes over the computer, with retropds and pitond jumping up to
90% of the CPU and never stopping. It's like they are talking to
the server, even though the server isn't listening.



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CCC also does "incremental" back-up
Authored by: hamarkus on Apr 30, '03 02:07:05PM

CCC also has a sync-feature, only backing up changes. Not quite an incremental back-up, since you still end up with only one back-up, but reducing the time needed for backing up considerably. Probably doesn't work with a read-only image, but as I understand it the image only introduces additional security against accidentally deleting anything.



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