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If I am moving from the current iTunes Disk/Time Machine disk to a new one, which should I use: Restore? Copy? If I am just backing up the Time Machine (and media) disk to its clone in the normal backup procedure, which should I use: Restore? COpy? |
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Copying to a drive that has files other than your Time Machine backups on it will erase anything OTHER than the Time Machine backups (and, obviously, the backup it's creating).
If you want to back up your Time Machine disk, with everything else that's on it, you'd use "Backup - all files".
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Using SuperDuper! to stress-test my new Time Machine drive
Last Friday, I installed a new 1.5 TB drive in my last Mac Pro drive bay, planning for Time Machine to start using the new drive sometime soon. My current 1 TB TM drive is 75% full.
SuperDuper! has been running nearly full time for 5 days, copying the current TM drive to the new drive. At the same time, Time Machine has been doing its hourly backups. I say "nearly full time" because it took something like 1.5 days for the initial Copy. Since then, Smart Update seems to be taking 16-20 hours per run. I realize that at the end of each Smart Update, the new drive is not a valid TM drive because TM has been continually changing the official (old) drive. I figure if I let this go on for another week, it will serve to stress-test the new drive before it becomes the official TM drive. Before I switch drives, I need to stop Time Machine for however long it takes Smart Update to make a clean clone. Does anyone see a problem with my plan? -- Ward |
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Well, I'm not sure this is truly accomplishing much, but it should certainly work.
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