My Leopard backup strategy

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:58:58 +0000

I caved in an installed Leopard this evening. Despite planning to wait for 10.5.1 when the disk arrived, well, okay, I'm weak.. I know it.

I've decided to combine my existing strategy of having a bootable system clone using SuperDuper with TimeMachine. I have juggled my data about to free up a 500GB Seagate Freeagent drive. On that I have setup one 120GB partition for SuperDuper to smart clone to and the rest is given over to TimeMachine.

I realise there is a certain amount of duplication in this strategy but, where backup is concerned, I'm not sure that's a bad thing and given that TimeMachine backups are not bootable it strikes me as still being a good recovery strategy to have the bootable system image via SuperDuper. Possibly it would actually make more sense to use two different disks but that's going to require more juggling.

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My Leopard backup strategy