Possible to use TC as clone of boot drive in Leopard?

Time Machine seems to take FOREVER whenever I run it, so I end up not running it. I was wondering if it is possible to use Time Capsule as a pure hd and clone my boot drive to it for a full backup option? If so, how? Are there reasons not to?

Bad sectors automatically get re-written when new data are supplied. If the new data don't "stick" a spare will be substituted.
If you are happy with your clone, just update it. There is no need to write Zeroes to it. I was suggesting that process for when you make major changes -- it takes several hours to complete.
You may prefer to use you smaller drive, Zeroed, to start a new clone, wait a little while to assure success, then start a Time Machine backup set on the larger Iomega.
Or some other approach that has not occurred to me.

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    (Biltan-Wales - 21 Dec 2009 - 11.02 GMT):-
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    (OCZ - 22 Dec 2009 - 18.29 GMT):-
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    (Biltan-Wales - 23 Dec 2009 - 16.19 GMT):-
    Thank you for your advice.
    I have now disconnected the Agility EX SSD, and removed it from my Mac Pro's lower optical bay.
    As Christmas is imminent, and I will not be using my system very much over the next few days, I will leave the drive for 4 to 5 days to allow ample time for all the power to discharge.
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    Anyway the most important matter is the existing problem, and I am hoping that following your advice will resolve this.
    I will contact you again early next week. In the meantime have a very enjoyable Christmas!
    (OCZ - 24 Dec 2009 - 00.25 GMT):-
    If the image is of an HDD and that image is then cloned onto an SSD that does tend to be problematic. I do not recommend doing this, as an image of the HDD somewhat regularly does fail to copy onto an SSD and still remain functional or fast.
    You can store the image file on any sort of drive. Storing the image file is fine, as that is just a digital file, so the storage medium doesn't matter. Its actually applying that image to a drive is where the problems often occur.
    You can image from a HDD to a HDD just fine, or an SSD to an SSD just fine, but going from one to the other is problematic enough that I recommend not doing this. Sometimes it works just fine, but other times it can fail catastrophically to the point of even bricking the drive. To error on the side of caution I recommend just going a clean install on the new SSD.
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    (Biltan-Wales - 29 Dec 2009 - 13.16 GMT)
    Thank you for your last email.
    Further to your previous email, and my reply of 23/12/2009. this morning I reconnected the Agility EX SSD.
    However, unfortunately, the drive has not showed up again on my system. There is no icon for it on the desktop, nor is it listed in Disk utility.
    When I checked Serial-ATAS in my Mac Pro's System Profiler, all 6 Intel ICH10 AHCI are listed in the Serial-ATA Device Tree, but, whereas all my other drives are sub-listed, there is nothing underneath the ICH10 AHCI for the lower optical bay.
    As the drive has had 6 days to discharge and reset, it would appear that it has not recovered.
    Where do I go from here?
    I am still awaiting a reply from OCZ, but that is not surprising, because of the different time zones and the Christmas?New Year holiday period.
    In the meantime does anybody else have any ideas, please?

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    "Check the log of SuperDuper (Window-Show Log); warnings are in red, I think.":-
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    | 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
    | 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Google Desktop Index files.dset
    | 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude iTunes Temporary files.dset
    | 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/williamtanner/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | /
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | /.vol
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /.vol
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | /cores
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | /Network
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | /.Spotlight-V100
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Preserving /.Spotlight-V100
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | /private
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/-S
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/zz
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.epson.epw
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.apple.speech.synthesis.globals
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/launchd
    | 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.WD.WDDriveManagerService
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/vm/swapfile0
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/vpncontrol.sock
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/usbmuxd
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/syslog.pid
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/syslog
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/printtool
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/portmap.socket
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mDNSResponder
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/cupsd
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.socket
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/asl_input
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/SCHelper
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/diskarbitrationd.pid
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/configd.pid
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/DirectoryService.pid
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/.DSRunningSP1
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/automount.initialized
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mds.pid
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/com.apple.loginwindow.didRunThisBoot
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/pppconfd
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/resolv.conf
    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/sntp.log
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    | 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/utmpx
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    | 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/db/BootCache.playlist
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    | 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-S6asBo
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    | 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/4b3745a3d4d81
    | 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/target221.indexState
    | 11:39:32 AM | Info | /Users
    | 11:39:36 AM | Info | Ignoring /.hotfiles.btree
    | 11:39:36 AM | Info | /bin
    | 11:39:36 AM | Info | /sbin
    | 11:39:36 AM | Info | /usr
    | 11:39:48 AM | Info | /System
    | 11:41:47 AM | Info | /Library
    | 11:42:41 AM | Info | /Applications
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | /.Trashes
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | /.fseventsd
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Preserving /.fseventsd
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | /dev
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | /net
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | /home
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | /Volumes
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/My Book
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 3
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 4
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 2
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 1
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/Untitled 1
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Evaluated 685438 items occupying 29.45 GB (164606 directories, 511269 files, 9563 symlinks)
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Copied 463 items totaling 0.69 GB (117 directories, 335 files, 11 symlinks)
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | Cloned 29.15 GB of data in 306 seconds at an effective transfer rate of 95.25 MB/s
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Resetting Custom Icon bit on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | PHASE: 3. After Successful Copy
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Making Untitled 1 bootable
    | 11:44:22 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Blessing OS X System Folder
    | 11:44:23 AM | Info | Successfully blessed Mac OS X folder on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:23 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Blessing OS 9 System Folder
    | 11:44:23 AM | Info | Did not bless Mac OS 9 System Folder on Untitled 1 because it does not exist.
    | 11:44:23 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Updating prebinding on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:23 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Updating boot cache on '/Volumes/Untitled 1'
    | 11:44:30 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current i386 cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
    | 11:44:34 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    | 11:44:34 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    | 11:44:38 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current ppc cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
    | 11:44:41 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    | 11:44:41 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    | 11:44:45 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current x86_64 cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
    | 11:44:48 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    | 11:44:48 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    | 11:44:52 AM | Info | Successfully updated boot cache on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:52 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Restoring Spotlight state on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:52 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Spotlight search indexing state on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:53 AM | Info | /Volumes/Untitled 1:
    | 11:44:53 AM | Info | Indexing enabled.
    | 11:44:53 AM | Info | Indexing enabled on Untitled 1
    | 11:44:53 AM | Info | Copy complete.
    "Maybe turn the MP off, pull the power cord and disconnect all external devices but keyboard and mouse, disconnct the SSD, reconnect and start MP":-
    I have tried this several times without any success.
    "Also, make sure no programs are running during cloning, and leave the computer alone.":-
    SuperDuper was the only program running when I cloned firstly to the Mac (WD) HDD, and secondly to the Agility EX on 21st. December.
    Also everything was disconnected before I removed and transferred the Mac HDD to an external enclosure.
    After I had checked that the Mac HDD had been cloned successfully, everything was disconnected again before I fitted the Agility Ex and the other 3 VelociRaptors in the lower optical drive bay, and drive bays 2,3 & 4 respectively.
    I used a Lindy anti-static Service Kit throughout the whole process. I purchased this originally for when I installed 16GB of Kingston RAM, an ATI Radeon HD4870, and my first VelociRaptor

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