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Bingo. And if you want to have a backup of the recent software updates, you can download the combo update and any others from Apple and save those to another drive/disc.
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I suppose I could rent a large safety deposit box for say $120 a year and get two external drives and rotate them to the bank every day. It’s been 12 years. When is Microsoft going to make a browser that works? |
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Are you reading anything we're trying to tell you? There's almost no point in backing up your system folder, let alone every freaking day. It doesn't change. Further, locking it inside a safety deposit box makes about as much sense as locking up your mouse. There's nothing critical, nothing important, nothing personal in the system folder. You had me at asl ....... |
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Selfish Heathen
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If you really really really want to backup your OS, then clone an image of your drive to another drive. Then you could quickly re-clone everything back to your iMac should you need to. But if you're going to all the hassle of booting from the install DVD to run Disk Utility to restore the drive, then it's kind of hard to justify the effort when you could just re-install from the DVD and save all the time and effort backing-up the OS in the first place. |
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Rasmits, don't know what you mean!
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Forget the car. Friend, neighbor, office??? I have an external enclosure and 2 HDD's left over from old machines. I rotate the drives between home and work. I backup everything (the complete opposite of what you're asking) because I HATE reinstalling apps one at a time.
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Ruling teh World
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Hmmmm,,,,, I read this entire thread and I am very confused why MCSE is so obsessed with daily backups. I mean, I make a backup of my music and photos maybe once every few months onto a DVD, but not my system folders or anything.
This just makes me confused. |
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Did we scare MCSE off?
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OMG, what happened!! Brad's on another meth bender - probably day three considering the typo on his main pet grammar issue. Honorable Mention for Post of the Day. I can't believe I just read this whole thread!! It probably should have been locked down after several posts. Perhaps it was kept open for its comedy value. |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Actually I found the reinstall time for the base install is about 3 hours. Then it’s an hour or more to tweak the OS back to where I like it and to install all the updates and such.
It’s been 12 years. When is Microsoft going to make a browser that works? |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Three hours? I've never had a reinstall take that long, and I'm on an old G4 PowerBook.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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What I ended up doing was this:
I Used the disk utility from the Mac OS X install disk 1 to partition the drive into three partitions. They are: 1. Mac OS X = 120 GB. 2. Backup = 92 GB. 3. Super Duper = 19.16 GB. The partitioning wiped all three partitions clean so I reloaded the OS from the install disks and tweaked the OS out. I downloaded Super Duper for free and made a clone working bootable copy of the OS to the Super Duper partition. Then I made and image file backup to the Backup partition from the Mac OS X main partition. There is enough room for 4 backups on the backup partition. So now any time I want to role the main installation back all I have to do is boot into the Super Duper partition and use the disk utility to erase the Mac OS X partition and load the image file and then use Super Duper to restore an older copy of the OS. The neat thing is that I can set the main OS to boot into the Super Duper OS by going to System Preferences, Startup Disk or in the event of a crashed or hung OS, Unplugging and plugging the iMac back in and holding down the Option key brings up a screen where I can select what bootable partition I want to boot to. This eliminates the need for the original install disks. This also means that with PC Anywhere the iMac can be fixed from a remote location over the Internet if there is a person around that is smart enough to unplug the iMac and plug it back in and hold down the options key and make an OS selection with the mouse. Super Duper costs $27.95 but the free editions is fully functional for full copies. To make a full copy or do a full restore takes 40 minutes on my system. If one purchases the full copy of Super Duper, Super Duper can update a backup image file which should take vastly less time. Super Duper can schedule an automatic weekly backup. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDup...scription.html Thanks for all the pleasant support folks. And for those that don’t believe in backup up at all, good luck. It’s been 12 years. When is Microsoft going to make a browser that works? |
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Reading this Byzantine strategy, all I can think of is....
"I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -Mugatu,Zoolander |
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Not a tame lion...
Join Date: May 2004
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It's not a bad implementation for a system restore type capability.
That being said, it would certainly be prudent to also keep a full backup on an external drive. |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I'm still lost as to why you would want a backup on the same disk?
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Oh sweet Jesus...
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Why don't you just get an a nice external hard drive w/ Firewire and be done with it.
By making your back up on the same drive in your system ... it's like making a photocopy of your credit cards in case you ever lost them, but keeping the photocopies in your wallet! |
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In the event of a hard drive failure everything on your hard drive will be gone!!!!! Every partition will be gone!!!! YOUR BACK UP WILL BE GONE!!!! And again: WHY DO YOU WANT TO BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM FOLDER SO DAMN MUCH????!!!! IT DOESN'T CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You had me at asl ....... Last edited by rasmits : 2007-08-03 at 10:21. |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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seconded. I'm lost as to why you think this would be an effective backup solution.
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Breathe, man. Breathe. Last edited by chucker : 2007-08-03 at 10:37. |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Image dink doesn't work Chucker.
Edit: Now it does. Last edited by kieran : 2007-08-03 at 11:35. |
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Here's the one situation where I think that scenario would actually be useful:
If you had a bunch of computers in a classroom environment and you wanted a quick way to set them back to their normal configuration after you've had a bunch of students hacking away at them. After each training session, you go around and kick a restore off on each one. But for data that you actually want or need to keep in case of crash? That needs an external repository. Do you know where children get all of their energy? - They suck it right out of their parents! |
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