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Best way to back up Leopard to Mirror
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markw10
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Nov 29, 2007, 03:55 AM
 
I have been using SuperDuper for a long time to Backup (Mirror) my MBP's hard drive to a external Lacie Firewire Drive. I just upgraded to Leopard and see version 2.14 is not fully Leopard compatible and they are working on version 2.15 to fix that.
I know there is also a program called Carbon Copy Cloner but I really prefer SuperDuper. Should I use Carbon Copy Cloner temporarily? Has anyone used SuperDuper or know what the actual issues are and if it's at all safe to use SuperDuper with Leopard?
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 04:07 AM
 
Mirroring is a very bad way to backup your data. If you have Leopard, you should definitely use Time Machine, that takes care of your needs and is built right into the system.
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Nov 30, 2007, 11:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by OreoCookie View Post
Mirroring is a very bad way to backup your data. If you have Leopard, you should definitely use Time Machine, that takes care of your needs and is built right into the system.
Mirroring (well, cloning isn't exactly mirroring) isn't bad. It makes restoring very fast.

But it shouldn't be the ONLY backup mechanism, because if you delete something and don't notice, the next time the clone happens, *zap* it's gone from the backup as well.

A true RAID 1 mirror does this instantaneously, so it's truly a bad option.
     
   
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