[Stonie]

Couple questions on backing up my PB. I have a lacie d2 160GB.

1. Is it better to create 2 partitions one for backup and another for all other data?
2. About how big should that backup partition be?
3. Is it more practical to use Silverlining to just backup the docs, tunes, pref files etc or better to use CCC to clone the entire HD.

I've also been seeing many suggest making the External bootable by installing the OS on it. Is this really necessary? and would I have to put that in its own partition? if so how big a partition?

Is it better to have a bootable partition and just copy that over in the event of a HD failure or is it better to just do a fresh install when a failure happens?

I did a search but havent quite found out much yet

Thanks

[rsgunther]

I run an external firewire hard drive.

I have 3 partions -- I backup to one of them per week with CCC. I erase the oldest one (with disk utility)then run CCC to do the backup.

I don't have a need for a data partion, although I used to do exactly that. I had 1 data partion & 2 for backups.

Either way works great.. it really depends how much data you have & how big your drives are.