Making a 2nd startup drive (cloner or install?)

[Beardy man]

Okay, I've just received my 3 750Gb Spinpoints and slotted them in.

I don't have anything else added onto my MacPro Jan08.

I want to make the drive in bay4 an alternate boot drive in case of problems.

Any recommendations? I'm thinking of using Carbon Copy Cloner and just cloning the whole of Bay1 onto Bay4.

I did insert the original 10.5.1 system disk but it wanted me to do a restart - I was hoping it would just let me do an installation into Bay4.

Pro's and Con's?

 

[pastrychef]

I'm lazy and hate having to re-install all the apps that I use. My vote goes to using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your current startup drive to Bay 4.

I don't see any cons to doing this.

 

[iSail]

No need for CCC; restore in disk utility does this quite well.

 

[Thiol]

No need for CCC; restore in disk utility does this quite well.

Restore does work just fine, but CCC cloner now does incremental backups as well. I add new applications every now and then, so this is nice to have. My current settings have it "clone" every weekend.

 

[Roy]

Restore does work just fine, but CCC cloner now does incremental backups as well. I add new applications every now and then, so this is nice to have. My current settings have it "clone" every weekend.

Does it copy everything on the original hard drive all over again or does it just copy the new changes or additions (every weekend)?

 

[Thiol]

Does it copy everything on the original hard drive all over again or does it just copy the new changes or additions (every weekend)?

Just copies new changes and additions. It's the one bug change in the update to the new version.