SD & TM backups

[fishmonkey]

Originally Posted by tuni

When I use SD, I always turn off TM in my iMac System Preferences, so that the TM backups are NOT cloned or backed up on to my Lacie FW external by SD (Smart BU).

Yesterday I saw that I can add the SD "application" to the "excluded" files backed up by TM.

I'm a little confused as to exactly what I should be doing to ensure that my TM backups are not cloned by SD, and that my SD backups are not backed up by my TM. I can't see why I should include either in the other's backup.

Does this make any sense? Am looking for recommendations and the "whys".

many thx,
tuni

ideally you would have two partitions on your external FW drive, one for TM, and one for SD...

point TM at one partition to keep incremental hourly/daily/etc backups...

and use SD to make full bootable clones of your internal HD, say once every couple of weeks (more or less depending on the amount of safety you want) to the second partition on the external drive...

since you have a full bootable backup on the SD partition, you could set TM to exclude system and application files from its incremental backups...