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Re: Backup Question

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In article <250320152113005572%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> Otto Pylot:
> 
> > Do I have this correct? 
> > 
> > CCC makes an exact clone of your entire drive (bootable if you want)
> > and then every time after that if you run CCC, it will only backup what
> > is new by replacing the file/app/document with a new copy.
> 
> Yes, although my experience is with SuperDuper. Same idea.
> 
> > TM, on the other hand, makes incremental backups of what ever
> > file/app/document so that you will have multiple copies of the same
> > file with increasing "newness".
> 
> > Advantages/disadvantages of both and can you have both on the same
> > physical drive and still be able to use both without messing up either
> > one?
> 
> The great advantage of CCC/SD is that you have a workable clone of your
> HD. If the HD should fail you can clone the backup to your new HD in a
> couple of hours while you go off and work on one of your five other
> Macs. If you are relying on TimeMachine you have only your files backed
> up. In the event of a HD failure you must reinstall all of your
> software, re-do all of your settings/preferences, and then bring back
> your files. That would be at least two days of hands-on work for one of
> my Macs.
> 
> You could have a TM backup and a CCC/SD clone on the same backup drive
> providing the drive had sufficient capacity and providing that each
> scheme had its own partition.

Thanks. That's what I thought and that's what I was hoping.

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