Backup scheme

my 3 yr old 17" MBP 200gig HD if full. I plan to get (2) 750gig WD Scorpio drives from Newegg.
1. I need to copy my current internal drive to both new drives. I have a adapter to put the new naked drives in. What would be the best method to copy all data. Carbon Copy Cloner or something else, maybe TimeMachine. I need to keep the OS intact and functional.
2. I eventually need to put in the new 750gig drive and make backups to the other 750gig. I use TimeMachine now. I just want the backup drive to be able to be inserted in the MBP should drive 1 die one day.
thanks for any good ideas.

From what you say you are intending to do... Then Cloning would be the way to go...
http://www.bombich.com/ccc_features.html
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Time Machine is not Bootable...

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Please help me to backup schema

Hello all,
I'm working with oracle 10 g express edition on my desktop (I'm building a mini CRM / ERP as my final project)
I would like to have the same data base on my Laptop too
how can I do that?
how can I backup the schema that I'm working with?
thanks allot

Hello,
Exactly what i posted in previous post
Computer 1_
exp system/password owner=yoursourceschemaname file=myschemaexport.dmp log=myexport.log
or
exp sourceschema/password file=myexport.dmp log=myexport.log
Computer 2_
Make sure "SOURCECHEMA" user exists on the computer 2; I assuming you already created it or knows how to create an user :)
imp system/password fromuser=yoursourceschemaname touser=targetscheam file=myschemaexport.dmp log=myimport.log
or
imp sourceschema/password file=myexport.dmp log=myimport.logRegards

Using expdp/impdp to backup schemas to new tablespace

Hello,
I have tablespace A for schemas A1 and A2, and I wish back up these schemes to tablespace B using schema names B1 and B2 (so the contents of schemas A1 and A2 are copied into schemas B1 and B2, respectively, to use as backups in case something happens to schemas A1 or A2 or tablespace A).
I began by creating tablespace B, and schemas B1 and B2. Then I attempted to populate schemas B1 and B2 by doing the following:
EXPORT SCHEMAS:
expdp a1/a1password@myIdentifier ESTIMATE=BLOCKS DUMPFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a1.dmp LOGFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a1_export.log SCHEMAS=a1 COMPRESSION=METADATA_ONLY
expdp a2/a2password@myIdentifier ESTIMATE=BLOCKS DUMPFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a2.dmp LOGFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a2_export.log SCHEMAS=a2 COMPRESSION=METADATA_ONLY
IMPORT SCHEMAS:
impdp b1/b1password@myIdentifier DUMPFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a1.dmp LOGFILE=myDpumpDirectory:b1_import.log REMAP_SCHEMA=a1:b1
impdp b2/b2password@myIdentifier DUMPFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a2.dmp LOGFILE=myDpumpDirectory:b2_import.log REMAP_SCHEMA=a2:b2
This resulted in backing up schema A1 into schema B1, and schema A2 into B2, but the tablespaces for schemas B1 and B2 remained tablespace A (when I wanted them to be tablespace B).
I will drop schemas B1 and B2, create new schemas, and try again. What command should I use to get the tablespace correct this time?
Reviewing the documentation for data pump import
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e22490/dp_import.htm#SUTIL300
specifically the section titled REMAP_TABLESPACE, I'm thinking that I could just add a switch to the above import commands to remap tablespace, such as:
impdp b1/b1password@myIdentifier DUMPFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a1.dmp LOGFILE=myDpumpDirectory:b1_import.log REMAP_SCHEMA=a1:b1 REMAP_TABLESPACE=a:b
impdp b2/b2password@myIdentifier DUMPFILE=myDpumpDirectory:a2.dmp LOGFILE=myDpumpDirectory:b2_import.log REMAP_SCHEMA=a2:b2 REMAP_TABLESPACE=a:b
Is that correct?
Also, is it OK to use the same export commands above, or should they change to support the REMAP_TABLESPACE?

Hi,
if i understand correctly, you want to import A1:B1 and A2:B2 with the Respective Tablespace. You are using the expdp with ESTIMATE it can not help you
You can use something like that with one dump file
expdp system/password directory=<myDpumpDirectory> dumpfile=A1_A2_Export.dmp logfile=A1_A2_Export.log schemas=A1,A2
impdp system/password directory=<myDpumpDirectory> dumpfile=A1_A2_Export.dmp logfile=A1_A2_Import.log remap_schemas=<A1:B1,A2:B2> REMAP_TABLESPACE=<TAB1:TAB2>
HTH

Times Machine backup scheme

I run a small office with three machines:
new Core i5 iMac, just purchased, (refurbished from Apple) running MacOS 10.8 (1 TB HDD)
Macbook, first generation, running MacOS 10.6.8 (160 GB HDD)
G4 iMac, used as a file server, being slowly phased out of use, running MacOS 10.4.11 & 9.2.2 "classic mode" (300 GB HDD)
I also store a common iPhoto library on a LaCie Rugged 300 GB hard disk, which will go back and forth between the new iMac and the MacBook.
My Time Machine questions:
I plan to use LaCie's SilverKeeper backup utility to back up the G4 iMac and the LaCie iPhoto drive, so they are not relevant.
My concern is with the newer iMac and the Macbook. Currently, the greatest capacity I have on an external hard drive is 500 GB. If I plug the new iMac into a 500 GB hard disk and start up Time Machine, will the Time Machine back up process really work? I do not have anywhere near 1 TB of data to back up. In fact, up until recently, the new iMac's predecessor was a (now dead) MacBook Pro and I was able to back up both laptops, the G4 iMac and the iPhoto drive on one 500 GB hard drive.
The other concern I have: I studied Time Machine on both Lynda.com and on my old MacBook Pro before it died. (It ran MacOS 10.6.8) I'm a little confused. Can a single backup drive be used to store Time Machine backups between two or more computers? It looks like Time Machine wants to use an entire hard drive per computer. Can I partition an external drive to have more than one mountable volume available for periodic Time Machine backups? Also: has the Time Machine interface changed significantly from MacOS 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") to today's 10.8 ("Mountain Lion")?
I've been hunting for deals on the internet for new backup hard drives. Does anyone here use cheap, USB-only portable bus-powered hard drives (like LaCie's Rugged drives) for easily carried, easily stowed Time Machine backup drives? If so, what brand and model do you use and how well does your drive-of-choice work? Does anyone here buy empty USB enclosures and laptop drives to assemble their own cheap Time Machine backup drives? If so, what is your preferred scheme?
Thanks in advance!
--WA

Walt_Atwood wrote:
Do I need to partition an external backup hard disk for use with more than one computer?
That's usually a good idea. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #4.
Should I at least put folders on the hard disk for each backup to be separate, or won't that matter?
You can't. Time Machine automatically creates a Backups.backupdb folder at the top level of a directly-connected drive, and will only back up to it. For backups made over a network, it creates a sparse bundle disk image named for the Mac it's backing-up at the top level of the drive, and will only back up to that.
Since you have an iMac and a MacBook, you have a much better alternative than switching the drive from one Mac to the other: Connect the drive directly to the iMac and let the iMac back up to it directly. Then back the MacBook up to that same drive (preferably a separate partition) over your network. That way, both can back up hourly as long as they're awake (and the MacBook is in range of your network) automatically. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #22 for setup instructions.

RAID Backup Schema?

I've a Mac Pro with the default 250GB HDD as the system drive. I also added a RAID 0 with two 400 GB WD HDDs giving me a fairly fast 745GB secondary 'drive' that I use for most of my larger projects.
I realize that I've now doubled the chances of a HDD failure wiping out my data. In fact it was made very obvious to me when I came in to my office one morning to find the RAID drive gone. Disk Utility wouldn't even boot up. I restarted the computer and still had nothing. At this point Disk Utility told me that there was only one of the two physical drives installed. I shut down again, pulled both disks out and reseated them in the same bays. Upon restart, voila, I was back in business and scared to death of it happening again.
I immediately ordered a 750 GB HDD to go in the fourth bay and to be dedicated to backing up the RAID. So here's my question: what would the experts suggest here as the best way to go about ensuring I'm able to keep my data safe?
I believe a RAID 10 requires 4 identical drives. My third drive is nearly twice the size of the individual RAID 0 drives but I don't think it works that way. Should I just use something like Retrospect/Backup/Lacie Silverlining to do a nightly backup or sync of the RAID to the new 750 GB drive?
Any suggestions?
Thanks much in advance.

Basic Backup
My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

Backup scheme for two destinations?

Hi all,I'm helping at a small school and am working on implementing a backup solution here. What we have is two practically identical Dells (T110 II) as backup servers, with ~11 TB of usable space each. A "full" campus backup is estimated at around 6 TB, so the theory is to do a full backup each week, alternating between the two servers as a destination. In other words, there is a full backup made somewhere every week, but each backup server gets a new full backup every other week.Full-A I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 --------------------------- Full-A I1 I2 I3 I4 I5
--------------------------- Full-B I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 --------------------------- We are planning on nightly incrementals, but I'm not sure if those too should alternate weeks (as hopefully illustrated above), or continue straight through. If the latter, network congestion may possibly be a...
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Backup a schema

How can we backup a schema using RMAN?
or what are the other ways through which we can backup schema?

Hi, you can get more information about this utilities (expdp and impdp) into the next url.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/dp_overview.htm#sthref13
Regards.

I recently purchase macbook air with OS 10.10.2. I want to use my Seagate external backup plus hard drive for time machine back up. How to partition my 1TB Seagate back up plus hard drive for use with mac and windows pc?

Hi All,
I recently purchased 13" Macbook Air with OS 10.10.2. I want to use my 1TB Seagate backup plus external hard drive as time machine and my windows 7 pc. Please suggest a method. Thanks in advance for your reply.

I strongly recommend having an external drive dedicated solely for TimeMachine. You could partition the drive but if something goes wrong you risk losing the data on both partitions. Should you decide to go ahead with splitting the drive for two different uses you’ll need to partition the drive either using the Mac’s built in Disk Utility program or Windows utility. I believe the built in Windows disk utility program will destroy the current partition and erase the data that’s on it - I use a third party Windows disk utility program for partitioning and it allows for non-destructive partitioning but warns to back up data first just in case. Apple’s Disk Utility can do non-destructive partitions but I don’t recall every trying to do a non-destructive partition on a disk originally formatted for Windows using it. Again - back up that data just in case.
Finally, your TimeMachine drive should be at least 1.5 times (I prefer 2 times) the size of the data you expect to be backing up a year or two from now. In other words, if you currently are using 50GB of your computer’s drive but expect to begin purchasing Mac software to replace software on your Windows computer and if you expect to be putting photos, music, and other data on it you might expect that two years from now you’ll have 100GB of stuff on the drive. So a 200GB partition is the smallest size you’d want. TM’s backup scheme keeps multiple copies of data as it changes so the extra room is important for this scheme.

How to restore a backup copy of 'My Music", from an external backup system

Is there a document somewhere on the procedure to recover iTunes when you used a 3rd party backup system?
Issue: I am having difficulty restoring my iTunes library from a third party backup system that mirrors all the files on my computer onto a remote disk drive. First I restored the files onto a new computer, then I loaded iTunes
for windows, and then used authorize option. iTunes does not show any of my files, and appears to have erased the files I restored. I am lost what to do next, I can restore the files again if need be, just want to read some instructions instead of guessing.
Background: My desktop computer gave me error messages when I rebooted my computer just after upgrading from iTunes 7.0.18 to iTunes 7.0.2. I got an error message that the operating systems SMS hive file is corrupt (a security file). After some investigation a technical person in my company tol me that the file is gone, on both my mirrored disk drives. Would appear that this is a serious iTunes bug or a serious hardware problem. Not knowing which, and confident I have a good backup, I have placed that computer on the side, and took a spare PC and started configuring it to be my new home computer.
I loaded all the Windows patches and installed, recovered all the files under "My Documents", loaded iTunes, Authorized the computer, and don't see my files. When I go back to "My Music" subdirectory I see very few files, when I am in iTunes I don't see my music.
The backup and restore was for all the files in "My Documents" kept on a remote server in my home, a Seagate Technology product called Mirra.
Questions:
1. How should I have restored those files? Apparently the method I choose does not work. All Apple FAQ information is based on me using the Apple Backup & Restore method, which I don't use, instead favoring using a single product to backup all my data.
2. Are there other reports of microsoft Windows Hive or SMS files being damaged in the iTunes upgrade process? Any thoughts as to this being related to the iTunes upgrade process or digital rights management?

First -- by default iTunes stores its Library in "My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl", and its Music in "My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\".
Make sure you have a "iTunes Library.itl" after the restore -- if not, and your backup software supports it, try an older version of the file. If your backup software only keeps the last version of the file -- well, then you are SOL, and you will have to re-add the files to the Library. You will also have to rebuild your playlists, ratings, etc.
Since you have "very few files" in the iTunes Music directory -- either you weren't storing your music there, or your backup didn't work. Are you sure you weren't using a non-default location for your music files?
If you had a hardware problem then it is likely that your backup stopped working properly at some point. This is why you need a rotating backup scheme and periodic archiving of files to non-writeable media (If you have the time/money)

Iphone: recover photos and contacts when itunes backup is corrupt/not-compatible

Thought it would be useful to share my experience with an iphone restore failure.
Scenario: my friend did an ios update (she has sworn to never do such a thing again based on this experience). The restore failed and her iphone would not boot up. iTunes said we need to restore. She had an iTunes backup (no iCloud backup) that had been used for a previous restore (i.e. a known good backup). When we attempted to restore, we got this:
I googled this problem, and see that we are not the first to experience this. I chatted with Apple Support and conclusion was "start fresh". I found several open-source tools (iPBA2, iphone Analyzer); but while both showed photos from the backup, neither showed contacts.
I copied the iTunes backup directory to my desktop Linux (CentOs) machine. Browsing in the directory (use the GUI file browser, or run "file *|grep JPEG) I could see all the photos. So I uploaded these to DropBox and gave the link to my friend. Result: I consider this a 100% success at recovering the photos.
Using the Linux "strings" command, I found files that looked like they contained contact list. For example, I knew that I (Tucker) was a contact in her list, so I ran something like:
for i in $(ls)
do
strings $i |grep Tucker > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? == 0 ]
then
echo found Tucker in $i
fi
This identifed a few likely candidates. For each of these files I then ran:
strings <filename> |more
and simply looked at the output. I found a file that had a bunch of names/phone-numbers. I saved the output to a file, ran some scripts to clean it up a bit, and I had a crude recreation of contacts (at least 1 phone number for each contact). I emailed this list of contacts to my friend, and she can now manually re-enter contacts as she sees fit. I can see this file type is sqlite. I tried various experiments reading this and other files with sqlite3, but did not have any success at finding actual contact info. Result: I consider this a partial success,
There are a number of files in the Backup directory which show up as file type "Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec". These appear to be voicemail messages pushed to the phone. I did not care about these. If you open them in the Linux GUI file browser, you can play them back.
Bottom line: Apple Support said "start over". Reality is, with a little effort, you can get back photos (most important, since these cannot be re-created from scratch), and some contacts (less important, since eventually you can re-create this with a little work). Might be other stuff (calendar, ...etc) that can be harvested if you poke around some more.
My recommendations:
1) Set up your phone for both iTunes and iCloud backup
2) Now assume that both your iTunes and your iCloud backups are corrupt. Do not trust them. The only way (to my knowledge) to see if they are good is to restore them to an iphone. Sort of like buying house insurance, and not knowing if it will pay for your damage until the house burns down. If the backups are good, then fantastic. If they are not good, you will have an alternate strategy.
3) Get a flickr account. Set your iphone to sync photos to flickr. flickr offers everyone 1TB free. I like a backup scheme where you can "see" your backup, and have confidence it is really there.
4) Login to icloud. Export your contacts to a file, and make a copy of file on another machine, or to the cloud (googledocs for example). Maybe you can export other stuff. I didn't really care about this, so no comments on that.
5) If all else fails, dissect files on Linux as described above
Comments/flames welcome.

Iphonebackupextractor for windows xp is a strange piece of software, which lets you extract only one file per session until you pay the registration fee. with "iphone backup extractor" from supercrazyawesome for mac you get the same functionality for free, so I could get her photos/films back. For the contacts you will need a sql-browser, which I had not try yet.

How to Delete Non-System State Backups in Windows 2008R2

Hello,
I am running a Windows 2008R2 server which uses Windows Server Backup to do the backups. We are using the backup-tool to create non-system state backups of the data-directories on this machine. The backup is done on a dedicated disk connected through iscsi
(to a Synology box). This backup disk has become too small and we have now replaced the Synology box with a bigger one. Here i created a new LUN again for the backup purposes.
Now for my question; The wbadmin.exe tool supplied with W2008R2 does not offer a way to delete the old backups. I know that in Win2012 (which we we also have running) I could add the new iscsi location and then (when enough backups are available on the new
target) use wbadmin.exe delete backup to delete the old non-system state backups; e.g.
wbadmin delete backup -version:08/07/2013-21:00
This (very undocumented) feature of Windows 2012 and higher works quite nice and is exactly what i am searching for on the W2008R2 machine; a way to delete the old backups (and under the hood delete the corresponding snapshots)
I've done quite a bit of research and it should be possible to do something similar in 2008 but then manually, The howto is described in the following link: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/06/22/backup-version-and-space-management-in-windows-server-backup.aspx .
Basically it describes that you should use DiskShadow.exe to remove e.g. the oldest snapshot with a command like :
Delete shadows OLDEST \\?\Volume{7fc1871b-2e1f-11dd-a339-001e4fb7af35}
Windows Server backup (wbadmin) should then on the next run 'see' this deletion and update its list of available backups:
"You can perform the same steps manually to delete backups on demand. However, the backup catalog update cannot be done manually and it will happen instead during
the next backup."
I've done this on our box and it indeed removes the shadows from the list. However, in the Windows Backup 'dashboard' it still lists the backups as available. Also after a new backup has finished (according the the article this is when it should 'update'
its backup catalog). When I try to restore a backup from a date that i just removed it gives a nice message that this is impossible because the snapshot is not available (duh :)) ;
Unable to browse Local disk. The shadow copy of the backup stored on the backup destination cannot be found.
So it seems that the aforementioned method works; it removes the snapshot and frees diskspace, but it doesn't update the Windows Backup catalog. As a result the management tool (GUI) still lists the backups which are no longer available! How can i change
this? Is there any way to do this? I found one article which mentions that the Dashboard bases its screen on the Windows Logs and not on the actual VSS snapshots available:
http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/23757-start-afresh-with-server-backup/ (WHS) In my situation however this seems unlikely because i don't have any logs that date back as far as my backups go.
In my opinion this is a real bug and it leaves us with a in-consequent backup schema. Does anyone have similar situations or even a solution to my problem?
Kind Regard, Martin

Hi Mandy,
Yes! I think i got my answer and I now get how windows backup works in Windows 2008 :-) It turns out that I dismissed some suggestions a bit too soon. The answer lies in the command mentioned earlier :
Wbadmin delete catalog
This command does delete all the backups from a perspective of the Windows Backup UI, but leaves the VSS snapshots intact. This means that the backups are still available, but you just can't restore them with the User Interface. In order to 'update' the
UI with the current available snapshots (which you can list with diskshadows list shadows all), you have to re-add the existing media on which the backups took place using the Wizard of the UI. It will then inform you that existing backups are available and
if you want to keep these for restore purposes. If you click 'yes', and THEN perform a backup ... All the current available backups will be shown in the User Interface :-)
So for my steps taken to change from one iscsi (iscsi1) to another (iscsi2):
- Add the 2nd iscsi target with the Windows Backup UI
using Backup schedule , Modify backup -> [desired options] => Add more backup destinations -> iscsi2
- Remove the 1st iscsi target with the Windows Backup UI
using Backup schedule , Modify backup -> [desired options] => Remove current backup destinations -> iscsi1
- Run some backups on the new destination. Old restore points are now still available. When enough restore points are available on the new volume iscsi2 start deleting old data from iscsi1 as follows:
- Run diskshadow
diskshadow
- list all the current snapshots
list shadows all
- remove all the snapshots of iscsi1 (repeat until all shadows are gone of iscsi1)
delete shadows oldest \\?\volume{yourvolumeid}\
- delete the windows backup catalog
wbadmin delete catalog
- Restart the windows backup UI and re-add your schedule on the new volume iscsi2. It will now ask if you want the keep the existing data for restore purposes; click yes.
- After the next backup only the backups of volume iscsi2 will be listed and everything is fine !
I Hope my post will help others with similar questions. It was quite a search before I understood the way it works. Basically as long as your VSS snapshots are still available and listed by diskshadow you still have the backups and you will be able to get
this in sync with the steps above (delete schedule and re-add originating targets containing the snapshots). After the next backup the UI will update itself.
(In my case someway along the way I lost my originating snapshots, but because I already had my new backup set it didn't bother me; It kept me from having to delete all 510 old backups :) with diskshadow)
Regard, Martin

Time Machine Backup Failed - on three Macs. Used to work fine.

"*+Time Machine Error*+
+Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume.+"
Last week all three machines were running fine. The Time Machine disk is hooked up to an Airport Extreme running 7.3.2 firmware. I updated it today to 7.4.1 in hopes of fixing the problem. All Macs are on 10.5.6 and have been for a month or more.
When "Backup now" is selected all machines stick on Preparing backup" for a few minutes and then fail.
I'm bummed that this is happening now. I used to use SilverKeeper (free from LaCie). It's faster and more comprehensive, but somehow I got sucked in by Apple's futuristic (historic?) interface. Now, in order to use SilverKeeper I need to erase the Time Machine drive - all 1.2TB.
I don't feel TM is ready for storage of important data. A commercial product would never make it to market if it continually had issues like this. Nearly 10,000 topics in this forum, and a good portion have just plain bad things to say.
I'm sure a lot of people have run into this on their own setups. Has anyone solved the issue? Please help.

Yes, perhaps we're missing something. But I'd rather stick with what works. Here's a software review that pretty much echo's my feelings:
*+I've tried to love Time Machine. I really have. It was one of the reasons I was in an all-fire hurry to upgrade to 10.5. I spent the cash, installed the OS, and immediately set up TM. Or at least I tried to. My new Airport Extreme wasn't allowed to access the USB disk for this purpose.+*
*+But I found a hack and things were good. For about a day. "To **** with it" I thought and went back to Carbon Copy Cloner. An excellent and free app that got me thru years of work with no loss of data. But wait! Now that I upgraded to 10.5 CCC no longer works.+*
*+So I played with it for a few weeks and eventually, I got it to work.... Until Apple released the official software upgrade that allowed Airport Extreme disks to work with TM and it broke again. Another 4 days of playing and reinstalling, and reformatting, and shuffling data. Still nothing.+*
*+****, you should have seen the look on their eyes when I showed up to the Apple store toting my G5 PowerMac Dual, AirPort Extreme, MacBook Pro, wife's MacBook, and two USB drives. AND my Apple ProCare card.+*
*+I took up half the Genius Bar for about 2 hours and still left with a backup scheme that would only partially work. Then, upon arriving home, the IP addresses had changed so I had to repeat half of the steps I barely remembered (and the Genius made up on the fly).+*
*+Finally all was good in the world. Until last week. My wife asked me to send her a picture I took of her with our new puppy at our new house about 6 months ago. I pulled up iPhoto and couldn't locate the picture. "No problem, I've got Time Machine" I thought.+*
*+The story is getting long and you can see where it's going. Not only was the picture missing, but 4 months of pictures were missing. 4 months starting when I stopped using CCC and, even though TM was running, it deleted the oldest files without any warning, any notification, or any reason. In fact the TM drive still had over 400GB free.+*
*+Yes, I had to replace a drive in that 4 month window and yes, I made sure I pulled the data off of Time Machine. HUGE pain in the @ss - it took nearly 4 days to copy the data from TM to the new drive, and apparently a big chunk was lost.+*
*+Finally, the end of my little story. I'm back using CCC. v3 is out and it works with 10.5 and reportedly, 10.6. Four years of using CCC and I've never lost so much as an email (much to the chagrin of my old landlord that emailed me that dogs were perfectly fine, only to try to sue me later).+*
*+For all of those who trust Time Machine, go ahead and try to find a file from a few months ago. It's not as easy as the interface makes it look, and it may not be there at all.+*
*+Time Machine - go sparse yourself. And thanks Bombich software for a superior product in Carbon Copy Cloner.+*

Incremental Backup possible with iPhoto '08?

Hi - I've always run a couple backup schemes for my iMac, and with iPhoto '08 it has become a lot more time intensive as the backup programs are now always replacing the entire iPhoto library in an incremental backup as opposed to incremental backup within the iPhoto folder (which was the case in iPhoto '06). Doesn't seem to be a problem for TimeMachine. But is a major issue for other programs I use (including Mozy, which has to upload 40GB everytime I add a photo to iPhoto, which is crazy!!; as well as syncing the library to an external drive and my MacBook).
Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?
Thanks!!

Synk Standard does look inside the iPhoto Library package and backs up only those files that are new or have been changed. Most of my libraries can be incrementally backed up in less than 1 minute. My 29,000 file library takes 2.5 minutes, only 16 seconds if I've not rebooted since the last backup and using it's ZeroScan feature.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Issue with Importing and Backups

I am trying to organize all of my photos using a simple scheme which is the following:
1) import all photos into a new Aperture library.
2) using the Aperture Import setting to automatically put a backup of each picture on an external hard drive.
This way, I can let Aperture manage everything, but I still have a raw copy of all of my original photos and they are not tied to any specific app so I can easily do whatever I want with them in the future.
If I just do a normal Import (i.e. Command -I) this works great. However, if I import any other way the files are not copied to my external hard drive. For example, if I drag a picture or folder onto the Aperture window it will import it but it doesn't make a backup copy. Or if I choose the Import Folders as Projects it doesn't make a backup copy
Please help! Thanks.

Unfortunately the bricks in the Import window (of which the backup you are referring to is one) only get run when you import through the import window.
No way around that that I know of. You'll need to setup another backup scheme for the images you import via other methods.
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Why didn't my backup restore do anything?

I did a full backup of my iPhone around a month ago and I restore the backup now through iTunes and it seems like it didn't restore anything. All my contacts are still gone, that was really the purpose of why I backed up my phone.

Most likely iTunes updated the backup when you connected the iPhone, and then restored the backup with the missing data instead of what you wanted.
Note that iOS uses a rolling backup scheme. There is normally only one backup, the current one. To make a snapshot that you could restore at a later date, backup and then immediately restore the backup. The restored backup becomes archived with the date it was restored and a new rolling backup set is generated. It is a good idea to do this every few months so that in the event of a disaster not too much data is lost.
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