Backup Strategy...

[-hh]

How to?

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The main point of my suggestion was to avoid putting your OS and apps into a RAID with your data at all. Separating your OS and Apps from your data will allow you to make clean, bootable clones of your OS and Apps without affecting your data, and is the quickest way to get back up and running if something goes wrong with your primary drive and/or OS as you can just boot from your backup drive immediately.

To separate OS/Apps from Data, the obvious approach is to move your /USERS/ directory off of the boot drive and put it on another drive.

What is the recommended 'best' way to do this?

I've looked very briefly into doing this a month or two ago, and it looks like OS X doesn't seem to have any "supported" way of doing this.

Here's a few webpages found while briefly Googling on the subject:
MacOShints, and Chris Pirillo Blog.

I've not dared try either technique yet, but I'm leaning towards Pirillo's approach as appearing to be "more supported" by the OS X GUI and Systems Preferences (Control Panels), as opposed to mucking around at the command line.

Comments, suggestions, alternatives?


-hh

 

[jamin100]

Mozy for off site backups. You get 2 gb free! $5 a month for unlimited space. It's also one of the most reliable off site outfits.

Never heard of Mozy before, just checking it out now. Looks quite good thanks.