From: Toby Hutton (tobyhutton_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 16:20:20 PDT
On May 30 '05, Norman Palardy wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2005, at 2:21 PM, DJ Vollkasko wrote:
>
> > Cheers, folks,
> >
> > a slightly Off Topic-question today: I would like to backup my
> > Powerbook's three partitions to my external Firewire harddisk. I have
> > tried with SuperDuper (too many error messages) and Carbon Copy Cloner
> > (can't backup to network or external drives, some error messages). Both
> > didn't really work out for me, so I need something else.
> >
> > Any hot backup tool-tips out there?
>
> A couple options :
>
> - use the command line tar the whole thing to your external volume
This isn't a great idea since tar doesn't preserve resource forks. The
command ditto does though and is recommended by the CCC creator. I
think CCC is just a gui for ditto if I read
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html
correctly. There are tips on this page on what you can selectively
leave out of a backup, using ditto. This is how I backed up my machine
recently to a firewire drive. It just copies the files there though, so
if you want an image you can copy around I'd suggest just making them
with Disk Utility (although it can't create an image of the system disk
while in use.)
Toby.
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