Pre-maiden-flight questions
My G4 iMac running OS X 10.2.8 is starting to freeze up fairly often. I often tune up the hard drive with Micromat Drive 10 (which I run from the bootable Drive 10 CD). In the past, Drive 10 has often said the directory structure needed some tweaking, but this time the error msgs are a bit more ominous, and I'd really like to have a backup before I give Drive 10 the go-ahead to fix things. It strikes me as something to fix on general principles, whether it's causing the freezes or not.
I have a 40GB internal hard drive (~22GB free) and a 120GB FireWire drive w/4 x 30GB partitions, so theoretically I could have 4 sandboxes. I've used SuperDuper! a few times to do a full copy to one partition or the other on the FW drive, just to get the feel of it, but this will be the first time I've had SD turn a wheel in anger, so to speak. I'm the only user on this Mac. I've RTFM, but I still have a few questions. So, do I do a full copy, a Safety Clone, or what? Will the directory-structure problems (if there are in fact any) on my internal HD be copied to the sandbox? Should I apply Drive 10 to the internal HD, or to the sandbox? Am I right in understanding that I can boot from the FW drive? As I said, I've been running Drive 10 from the CD, but I assume that if I installed it on both the internal HD and the sandbox, I could then run it on a drive other than the drive I booted from? As you can imagine, I'm trying to pick my way carefully on this! Thank you. |
You definitely don't want a Sandbox, Staxman: you want a full copy. Since we copy file-by-file, directory issues won't be duplicated... but it's possible that you won't be able to complete the backup, because if the drive or folder structure is damaged, you can't back up...
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Pre-maiden-flight questions
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1) Make full copy. 2) Apply Drive 10 to internal HD. 3) In case of problems, full-copy back from FW drive to internal drive. |
Yep, sounds about right, except I'd check the full copy before relying on it...
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