using timemachine as carbon copy cloner replacement?

[icedtea1996]

hello!

im thinking of taking up time machine to do my backups. heres my situation though: usually i do every couple weeks (sure, not often enough) a diskimage of all my macpro files with carbon copy cloner on to an external hdd. this way i can take the external hdd any place with my macbook and have my macpro files available in addition to having a backup. if i take up using time machine, will i be able to extract individual files from the macpro time machine image when opening it up with my macbook (just like i can with the dmg i get from carbon copy cloner)?

(both machines run leopard)

hope that was clear, looking forward to any sort of feedback, cheers!

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[chscag]

Use both methods. Of course you'll need two external HDDs but at today's prices should be no problem. For the cost of a tank of gas for your SUV, you can get a nice 250 Gb USB external!

 

[icedtea1996]

well im looking to half the work not double it ;-) (and the costs)

so the question remains: can i access individual files in a time machine image when using another computer than the one the image belongs to?

 

[icedtea1996]

no one knows??

 

[ddoonie]

well im looking to half the work not double it ;-) (and the costs)

so the question remains: can i access individual files in a time machine image when using another computer than the one the image belongs to?

I have done it before, just copied the file over and worked on it... It works essentially the same as CCC, so just a matter of locating the file etc...

 

[stainlessliquid]

Should work fine. I even used to be able to see the files in Windows but for some reason I cant anymore... the folder just shows up as only a few KB (I have no idea where the files go when using Windows). Ive always been able to view them in OSX though.

Really the only use I can see for stuff like Carbon is if you need a compressed disk image to burn to a DVD or keep as a single file. TM is faster since its uncompressed, and its kept in a folder which is more convenient to access.