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10.5: Ease restore from Time Machine
Authored by: lodewijk on Oct 26, '07 11:57:46AM

3 partitions!!!

1 bootable copy of 10.5 install dvd (8gig?)
2 nightly superduper backup (as much as is needed)
3 time machine (rest of the disk-space)

use 1 to install 10.5 on machines, or restore time machine partition.
use 2 for superduper, but i guess 1 and 3 together make 2, so you don't even need superduper? and can use 2 partitions?



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10.5: Ease restore from Time Machine
Authored by: reidjazz on Oct 26, '07 01:18:13PM

Remember...redundancy, in terms of backups, is a GOOD thing. I'm keeping my SuperDuper! nightly backup bootable clone IN ADDITION to TimeMachine's mechanism.

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10.5: Ease restore from Time Machine
Authored by: bugmenot on Dec 24, '07 06:44:34AM

I know that I'm late to the party here, but I would like to lend my experience :)

I like your strategy, since it would attack one problem that I had (where my drive became corrupted and superduper happily copied a new backup until it got to the corruption - overwriting my good backup in the process!). However, twice now I have experienced events that have killed both my regular AND backup drives. The first was lightning. Need I elaborate? :) The second was a bad case design, and the long and short of it was that one hard drive fell onto the one below it, killing both of them.

I now keep a local clone, but also subscribe to Mozy for $5/month. It has unlimited storage. It wouldn't be my first choice as a backup source, but I'm sold on offsite storage now!



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