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backups
/Users/* - All user directories (probably only 1 user). All OSX specific apps I've installed seem to be very good at keeping the files they need in one directory in the user's own directory. You'll probably want to empty your trash before backing up user directories.
backups
one more thing. I've read that it's best to use gnutar rather than tar so that the very long file/pathnames are stored correctly.
backups
I'm hoping that someone (Apple?) will come up with an intuitive, easy-to-use backup program that will handle the UNIX core of OS X. Although I'm quite comfortable (now) on the command line for basic operations, I'd rather not have to explain to Mom how to move her user folder and installed apps from one drive to another when she upgrades her machine.
backups
Given the way that an idisk (http://www.apple.com/idisk) can be mounted seamlessly into a finder window, it doesn't look too big a step to provide easy drag and drop tools to move files between connected machines.
backups - followup
FYI have been successful in following RobH's ideas, mostly.
backups with Apple ASR
here is the Apple solution to do backup cd - they call it restore CD- you can either do a simple Backup volume or a bootable one. It requires some scripting additions disc copy 6.3.3 and others little things. You need ASR (Apple software restore) too. |
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