Wow, Love it!
Tonight I've cloned my iMac in readiness for it to go off for repair. Two things have been impressive about this process. The first was that a USB 2.5" HDD with 250Gb capacity can be your for GBP 84. I decided to pay a little more for the extra flexibility of a small disk :-) This mans that now I have 3 or 4 small USB disks and a big old pimpy neon-lit Firewire brick on my desk. Wow!
The second is that there's still free software out there that works well. I used something called CarbonCopyClone. Brilliant. I'm going to burn an image of my PBook as well, just in case something goes horribly wrong.
For my normal incremental backups I use a Lacie app called Silverkeeper, which (they may not truly appreciate) works with any external disk. The only thing that's missing is the ability to script a certain background backup to happen when a certain disk is inserted... Ho hum. Weather looking good, planning to go training with my cycling club on Sunday, decorating tomorrow.
PS > Anyone who reads this who has a reasonable spec PC destined for the skip, drop me a line. I need a new platform for my linuxbox. :-)
The second is that there's still free software out there that works well. I used something called CarbonCopyClone. Brilliant. I'm going to burn an image of my PBook as well, just in case something goes horribly wrong.
For my normal incremental backups I use a Lacie app called Silverkeeper, which (they may not truly appreciate) works with any external disk. The only thing that's missing is the ability to script a certain background backup to happen when a certain disk is inserted... Ho hum. Weather looking good, planning to go training with my cycling club on Sunday, decorating tomorrow.
PS > Anyone who reads this who has a reasonable spec PC destined for the skip, drop me a line. I need a new platform for my linuxbox. :-)
posted by Lewis @ 01:37
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