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Mirroring Computer to external Working drive.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Is it possible to have an external drive that acts as a mirror of your computer?
Here's the scenario I'm trying to accomplish:
I've got an Mac at work, and a mac at home...
I often work from home after work, or on the weekends. Is it possible to have an external hardrive that I keep mirrored to my work computer.
I want to use this harddrive, plug it into my mac at home, boot to it, use all applications that are installed on it, etc. Then when I get back to work, I plug in the hard drive, and the mac at work updates itself to the hard drive?
Are there any solutions for accomplishing this?
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks!!
One other question is, can I use the Time Machine backup as the boot drive? I'm running Leopard on both machines FYI.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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Why not just use the drive to store all your documents, or at least the documents that you use for work?
I don't see the need for "mirroring" or "booting to it".
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That's what I'm going to do...
But a Co Worker, would like to go the mirrored route, because he doesn't want to install all applications etc. on his home computer, because it's his wife's.
So something along the lines of what I listed would be a much better option for him.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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He could put the applications on the external drive too.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Originally Posted by mduell
CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper
Yeah - I would do like this too. Use my FW drive and have SuperDuper to clone all the apps.
Later, just boot and use the FW as the main drive to work on.
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