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Re: Backup Question

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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.

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