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Forum: General

01-28-2009, 05:34 PM

Replies: 4

Upgrading MBP's drive... how best to transfer data?

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Posted By dezinnia

OK... I found a few other posts on this... (you...

OK... I found a few other posts on this... (you guys should have a step-by-step for Dummies in your FAQ!)...

I also found an enclosure that should work.

So...

1) Put replacement drive in...

Forum: General

01-28-2009, 05:00 PM

Replies: 4

Upgrading MBP's drive... how best to transfer data?

Views: 6,881

Posted By dezinnia

Ah, I just saw this thread below about putting...

Ah, I just saw this thread below about putting the new drive in an external enclosure, and then running SD! to that, and then installing the drive... I could try that (but if I don't have a spare...

Forum: General

01-28-2009, 04:52 PM

Replies: 4

Upgrading MBP's drive... how best to transfer data?

Views: 6,881

Posted By dezinnia

Upgrading MBP's drive... how best to transfer data?

My MBP is flawless, but for the size of the drive (only 150GB... or maybe 160; system profiler says 149.05, so who knows...).

Anyway I'm going to put a 320GB in, and am wondering the best...

Forum: General

07-24-2008, 11:22 PM

Replies: 5

MBP out for service; booting spare computer from SD FW disk

Views: 11,080

Posted By dezinnia

OK... so we have the computer back, and I was...

OK... so we have the computer back, and I was just going to do the copyover... are these new posts cause for concern?

I should option-boot the MBP and select the Firewire Disk (which has the most...

Forum: General

07-20-2008, 12:22 AM

Replies: 5

MBP out for service; booting spare computer from SD FW disk

Views: 11,080

Posted By dezinnia

MBP out for service; booting spare computer from SD FW disk

One of our MBPs is with Apple for some repairs... it'll probably be out until the end of the week. To continue using it, we did a copy of the HD before bringing it in, so we have the most recent...

Forum: General

10-08-2007, 02:39 PM

Replies: 3

Advantage of leapfrogging SD backups?

Views: 6,660

Posted By dezinnia

RTFM, right? :o

RTFM, right? :o

Forum: General

10-08-2007, 12:08 PM

Replies: 3

Advantage of leapfrogging SD backups?

Views: 6,660

Posted By dezinnia

Advantage of leapfrogging SD backups?

If the external drive is partitioned, and it's large enough to accommodate two full backups, has anyone found an advantage in scheduling "leapfrog" backups? Say, M-W-F do the backup to backupdrive1,...

Forum: General

10-07-2007, 01:54 PM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

Thank you! I think I'm finally up to speed!

Thank you! I think I'm finally up to speed!

Forum: General

10-07-2007, 01:15 PM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

Gotcha. And then, the other question from my...

Gotcha. And then, the other question from my previous post (sorry for my ignorance!), will doing this partition delete the existing backup? (So I'm starting from scratch?)

Forum: General

10-07-2007, 10:35 AM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

Thanks! Roger that on the alloted space! ...

Thanks!

Roger that on the alloted space!

500GB external drive/2 partitions = 250GB each (233GB actual). MBP is 160GB, so I should be fine.

There are a few schemes on that options tab,...

Forum: General

10-07-2007, 02:30 AM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

thought I'd resurrect this... I've been...

thought I'd resurrect this...

I've been doing stuff in garageband, and the files it generates are huge. A five-minute song with two tracks is about 200MB...

So, I know I've got plenty of space...

Forum: General

09-17-2007, 05:04 PM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

yeah, you're right... I guess I was reading too...

yeah, you're right... I guess I was reading too much into it...

(Page 7 of the user guide...)

it says on the "Backup - All Files" that it's useful when many previous versions of a document...

Forum: General

09-17-2007, 02:40 PM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

Thanks, Dave... According to the user guide,...

Thanks, Dave...

According to the user guide, it mentions that the bootable backup isn't the best place to recover regular files... like for a daily backup, or if I want to recover a file I...

Forum: General

09-17-2007, 11:39 AM

Replies: 19

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

Views: 24,897

Posted By dezinnia

Bootable vs file backups, VMware and partitions

New SuperDuper user here... just bought the product.

I have a new macbook pro, and I'm running VMware fusion to let me have a virtual machine with Windows XP... the MBP has a 160GB drive. 60GB has...

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