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Bombich Software released Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1

Quote:

Among the new features are:

• Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones.
• Synchronization built-in, not bolted on.
• Support for backing up across the network to another Macintosh.
• Advanced scheduling capabilities — Backup tasks can now be scheduled on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or you can indicate that a backup task should run when the backup device is attached (e.g. an iPod). You don’t even need to be logged in for your backups to occur!
• CCC recognizes iPods specifically, allowing time for the iPod:iTunes synchronization to complete.
• The ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn’t (you can drill down indefinitely).
• Built-in software update feature notifies you when updates are available.

See the complete release history here

James Duncan wrote an interessting article about restoring a Leopard installation from Time Machine.

His conclusion as quote:

In short, Time Machine passed the Trust, but Verify challenge with flying colors. I’m pretty happy about that as it means that I can recommend that my friends and family including my Dad who just bought an iMac not too long ago can use Time Machine as a totally automatic backup mechanism. There are, however, two caveats to using Time Machine as your only backup strategy. The first is that you really should keep your data in at least three places and one of those places should be offsite. You should either continue with your existing offsite backup strategy for your most important documents or maybe you should consider rotating two disks as Time Machine volumes. Then again, if you’re currently not backing up at all, having even a single Time Machine backup volume is a massive improvement.

The second caveat is that restoring from a Time Machine backup is not particularly fast. If you often find yourself on deadline, hitting a half-day’s worth of downtime due to a hard drive crash might not be acceptable to you. In fact, if you have a hard drive crash, you may be looking at a full day’s worth of downtime by the time you secure a new disk and install it. For folks like my Dad, this kind of thing isn’t too big an inconvenience. You can start up a backup, go off and do something else, and come back to a restored system. However, it’s the kind of thing that I’d like to try to avoid in my day to day work, especially when I’m on deadline. If this sounds like you, you’ll want to look at having a ready copy of your boot volume by using a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner. SuperDuper! has also been a great Mac OS X choice, but isn’t quite ready for Leopard yet. Hopefully, it will be soon.

Great……i was just going to test it myself…..but now ?

Yeah right…..Trust….but Verify hehe

If you want to create backup of your hard-drive you have diffrent options howto do that.

• Carboon Copy Cloner (donationware)
• Super Duper (shareware)
• Disk Utility (part of OSX -> /Applications/ Utilities )

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