Bring back Unlimmited plan

seriously verizon bring bck the unlimmed plan the usage limmit is so horrid i would like to do more things on the internet but i cant cause the oonly other service is satalight and i cannot use that for online gaming which blows.

I don't need unlimited, but fair value for dollar would be nice, and $40/250 meg on a notebook broadband plan is definitely not it. Neither is $15/150 Meg on a phone. Along with a $20 surcharge for a mere 2 Gig of tethering with a proposterous overage charge of $20/gig. When I had it on my old Moto Q it was only $15/5Gig. Verizon has been notorious for offering extremely poor value for dollar options, and these current broadband and smartphone data plans are definitely no exception. I shudder to think what the new LTE smartphone data plans will look like.
These plans do, however, create windfall ROI with fat dividends for investors, high ARPU, and high profit margins, which is actually the point of low-value, high-dollar pricing models.
To add insult to injury, Verizon also has discriminatory device pricing, offering markedly better tablet data plan options which incidentally INCLUDE tethering/wifi-hotspot. Palm Pre also is given wifi hotspot options at no extra cost, but Android Blackberry and Windows Mobile are charged Extra for this "feature". Will the iPhone be charged extra for hotspot feature too? Time will tell on that.
Oh, and now reports indicate the $15/150 Meg smartphone plan is going away soon. Will better value for dollar appear in it's place? Knowing Verizon, I wouldn't count on it but we can hope.

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Bring back the 12 month devise installment plan.

You need to bring back the 12 month devise installment plan. I am grandfathered into the unlimited data plan and do not want to give it up, so the edge plan is out of the question. I cannot afford to pay full price for a phone and accessories. the installment plan helped me tremendously in my purchase of a new devise withOUT, changing my plan and coming greatly out of pocket. HELP!!!
I have been a VZW customer for more than 12 yrs. The devise installment plan, unlimited data plan that I have and great service, are just a few of the reasons i an still with VZW. Please remain competitive and re-offer this service.

Who cares what my data plan is? Has nothing to do with my opinion on unlimited data. I could of had it. Chose not to, didn't need it. Still don't. I use maybe 500 MB per month.
The point is Verizon wants to get rid of it. And has been getting rid of it piecemeal for years. My point is if they are going to do it, just do it. Like pulling a band-aid off. You just rip it off you don't try to finesse it. Just dumping it gets rid of all the 'How can I still get a discounted upgrade" threads also gets rid of the "Verizon tricked me into giving up unlimited data" threads.
Will people get mad? yes.They get mad now. What's the difference? Heck offer them 10 GB per line bonus for 2 years for each unlimited data line as a gesture. The ones that leave likely use the most data and that will actually help if they left.

Bring back the 500GB Standalone Plans

I am very disapointed that there is no longer a 500GB option and everyone is now forced onto either 50GB, 250GB or 1TB tiers. I would have much preffered a price discount and the 500GB plan offered at $95 dollars, instead of being stuck paying $113 for 500GB and hoping I get upgraded to 1TB. If I don't then I'm expected to pay an extra $2 dollars and swap to a different plan when others have been upgraded for free. I could understand if the 500GB plans weren't offered anywhere, but they are still offered in bundles, could you please bring back the 500GB plan or at least have it available in a tier?? I personally think 250GB, 500GB and 1TB tiers instead would be better value. If I was paying less than 100 dollars for 500GB I would be more incentivised to bundle, and the bundles as usual disadvantage existing customers by offering nothing at all. Thanks Telstra

Hi dazza826,
Thanks for offering this feedback to us.
At this stage we won't be offering a cheaper plan for the 500GB. We increased data to enable people to be able to enjoy our new Telstra Air service without concern of using up their data. More on that here
https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/telstra-air?tc=G%7cE%7cD%7cBP%7cBPHBB%7cTelstraAir&gclid=CjwKEAjw8e2sBRCYte6U3suRjFESJAB4gn_g1FdYs2p5G-t0THbhdXBRY6Ob8KRji8_a6Y30fFnnLhoCizXw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CIn7gIvOysYCFQ8ZvAodGGAKeA
Angela

Is Windows 8.1 Update 2 bringing back the start menu?

Was browsing group policies in Windows 10 GPMC, and discovered something new... Start Menu layout. But the requirement is "At least Windows 8.1 Update 2". So is 8.1 Update 2 bringing back the start menu? This could change before the final release
of Windows 10 obviously, and they might have originally planned to bring it back in 8.1, before deciding to make it a big deal for Windows 10, but an interesting discovery nonetheless.

Unfortunately, there will be no Windows 8.1 Update 2. If you want the new Start Menu design, you'll need to upgrade to Windows 10.
"...customers can expect that we’ll use our already existing monthly update process to deliver more frequent improvements along with the security updates normally provided as part of “Update Tuesday.” So despite rumors and speculation, we are not planning
to deliver a Windows 8.1 “Update 2.” (Copied from this blog)
Carey Frisch

Bring back Visual Basic 6.0 ! We all need it.

Please reconsider introducing VB6 to the market. It is needed by many.

Hi Reed,
Thanks for your two posts. Let me try to reply.
Discussion or Argument ?
You say "these forums are for discussions not arguments", and suggest that I want an "argument" or I am "trolling".
Yes they are for discussions and no it isn't the case that I want an argument (or that I am trolling). I am trying to have a reasoned discussion following the opening poster's genuine request to "Please reconsider introducing VB6 to the market. It is needed
by many."
I don't consider you treated him fairly. You have some sort of administrative status on this forum, implicit in that is that you should treat all posters equally and fairly. Yet your first post was "Bring back Windows 3.11, we need it. ......VB6 should
be retired and forgotten." That post alone was unfair to the OP and it set the tone for other posts that followed.
In other posts you refer to "VB6 zealots" but never criticize those who oppose the return of VB6 even when they accuse posters of being someone else. (I'm not making a plea for more banning and more censorship, I'm asking that everyone be treated
equally).
You also say "At the end of the day it is a fool's errand to argue with fools, so there's little sense to continuing the 'discussion'". Hardly fair and equal treatment, and certainly not an encouragement of discussion rather than argument.
You also state "If this thread were meant to take itself seriously, it would have a title which was not so obviously false, and it would contain some content with a reasonable argument." Again, the opening post was clearly a genuine call. You may
not agree with it but that is no reason to call it 'obviously false'.
Also the opening post doesn't even refer to VB.NET, it certainly doesn't suggest that VB6 should replace VB.NET - it is others who bring VB.NET into the argument. (And yet you move it to 'Off-topic posts' on the grounds it is not VB.Net related).
Let me state I am putting this forward as my genuine opinion of your actions, I am not attempting to 'troll', 'flame' or to attack you personally.
Valid arguments for VB6
You say Cor has clearly demonstrated there are no valid arguments for keeping VB6 around. Not so.
First of all the OP says "it is needed by many". Why should your and Cor's opinion be any more important than the OP's ?
Here are some reasons it is needed (I limit myself to just 5 otherwise this post will be huge):
1) VB6 is still widely used. According to the TIOBE index it is the #7 most popular programming language - an amazing feat for a language last updated 16 years ago. Particularly as Microsoft (& others) have spent 12 years trying to kill
it off. You may not like it, but there it is.
2) There are still a huge number of legacy VB6 applications in use, especially in corporates and government. Microsoft have (to their credit) recognized this and offer "it just works" support for the VB6 runtime until at least 2023 (soon to be extended).
But this support is for the runtime, not the IDE.
Microsoft effectively offer 2 options for these VB6 applications
a) If no modifications are required, continue running the VB6 application (presumably Cor disagrees with Microsoft).
b) If modifications are needed, migrate to VB.NET.
But in real life the most likely scenario is that the VB6 application will require a minor modification.
So what do you do ? According to Microsoft you migrate. But if the modification is just to change (for example) some text on a form that would be nonsense. I saw a suggestion a while ago that it cost $1 for every 3 lines of code migrated. So
a medium sized VB6 application could cost say $20,000 to migrate. Clearly that is not an acceptable cost for the minor modification I suggested. (Don't get hung up on actual cost figures, I am just pointing out there are potentially significant
costs involved).
The obvious answer for this scenario is to use VB6 (at a cost of say $20 not $20,000). Yet Microsoft don't offer this, stating that the VB6 IDE is not supported on Windows 7 or 8.
Does anyone disagree that doing minor modifications in VB6 is the only acceptable solution in this scenario? Or are some going to suggest it is better to spend $20,000 than $20 ?
Microsoft have painted themselves into a bit of a corner here, stating that they support unmodified VB6 applications until 2023, but you can't (theoretically) modify them.
For completeness on this point I'll cover some other typical scenarios too:-
One is that the VB6 program needs to become a web application - effectively this is then a re-write not a migrate, so you can decide what language is best to use. It may be, for example, that JavaScript/HTML5 is the way to go. (I've followed this route myself
for some old VB6 apps).
Another is that the VB6 application needs a mobile version. A few years ago that may have been VB.NET for Windows Mobile. (I've done that myself too, great for Windows CE/Windows Mobile 6.x). But doing this today you are really looking at iPhone,iPad
and Android - again you can choose the best approach (native or web app ?) and language.
The final scenario I'll mention is the one Microsoft do cover - migrate your desktop VB6 app to desktop VB.NET. I can't think of any occasion in the last few years where I have found a genuine need to do this. I have certainly seen cases where
IT (or whoever) have decided that VB6 apps must be migrated because VB6 is 'obsolete' (I guess a view not too dissimilar from many in this forum). I've even done a few of these myself (though I had the sense to only do smaller migrations, not wanting
to tie myself up with large scale migrations). I don't think of any of these new applications (done by myself or others) were any better than the ones they replaced, but at least the customers were happy (and paid well).
3) VB6 is the same language as VBA. VBA is a current, Microsoft supported language. It is in Microsoft's flagship product Office 2013. And it is the same language as VB6. You can cut and paste code between VB6 and VBA (and vice-versa). It is the same
language.
Both VB6 and VBA use the Visual Basic Runtime Library. In fact it is more than that, VB6 actually uses VBA to define it's language. In effect the VB6 IDE is a host for VBA in the same way that Word or Excel are hosts.
It is strange that Microsoft support (and sell and extend) the language when it is named VBA but not when it is named VB6.
Microsoft say VBA will be supported for the foreseeable future stating "This means that if you have an existing VBA project that you are satisfied with, you can be confident your investment is safe". Where is the logic in having this for VBA but not VB6
They assure you your VBA investment is safe but won't give the same assurance for your VB6 investment.
(OK, for the more pedantic posters VB6 is the same as VBA6. VBA7 is the latest release and includes a handful of modifications to support 64 bit Windows. Prior to VBA7 the languages were kept identical, it is these same modifications that many
of us now would like to have incorporated into an updated VB6).
4) A suggestion to bring back an improved version of VB6 is the fifth most popular (out of almost 8,000) on the Visual Studio UserVoice site. Vote
for VB6
5) Microsoft's program manager for Visual Studio stated (Channel 9) "It isn't cost effective to keep rewriting code to get back to functional equivalence". Quite so. So why re-write existing VB6 applications ? (Again, Cor presumably disagrees).
General Points
You mention LightSwitch and SmallBasic. A good point. But I'm sure you know neither support VB6 code so it doesn't address the concerns of the OP. But it is nice to see that you aren't opposed to all languages that aren't called 'VB.NET'.
So why the opposition to an updated VB6 ? If you prefer, it could be named LightSwitch 6.1 rather than VB6.1 ? Or maybe SmallBasic 7.0 ? Or if you see VB6 as a threat to VB.NET you could name it VB Junior. As long as it can open and compile VB6
code that's fine by me. Incidentally, there is certainly no call for VB6.1 to be part of "the .Net family".
You say "you want these hard working people to DO MORE WORK so that you can continue to generate income from your ancient endeavors." I'm not sure I see your point here. How is asking for Microsoft to bring back VB6 (together with the modifications
they have already done for VBA7) doing that? I suspect Microsoft could do this for a fraction of the money they have wasted on LightSwitch or SmallBasic. And if it is going to be more work than Microsoft can handle (as if) they should open source
VB6.
You mention that your 8 year old website is 'crap'. Well, that's what happens with websites. But the analogy doesn't really hold for a typical VB6 desktop program. A desktop CRUD program written in VB.NET doesn't really look (or behave) any different
to the same program in VB6.
You ask what I will be doing in 5 years when nobody uses PCs anymore ? Well who knows what the future will bring, but it is likely to be VB6 for those (mainly corporate) users still using desktops and laptops or Windows tablets, JavaScript for
Web apps - including iOS and Android - (I note Microsoft are recommending JavaScript/HTML5), and something (maybe Basic4Android ?) for native Android apps if Android phones and tablets become more acceptable for corporate users. I'll probably
also be migrating my VB.NET apps to JavaScript too.
As things stand, Microsoft have sent a clear message: 'If you are planning to make a substantial investment in developing your software, if your application is mission-critical, if you expect to use it for years to come - don't use Microsoft languages.'
Have Microsoft learnt from this ? The killing of Silverlight would suggest not.

Bring back traditional scroll bars and arrows

Why would Apple change a fundemental part of the UI? Removing scroll bars and arrows from the UI is unacceptable in my view. I understand you can restore scroll bar functionality from system preferences but having the arrows on certain apps is very helpful. What possible reason or improvement could warrant this action?
-LB

I'm a Wacom tablet user for many yeras, an not planning to get a Magic Mouse ($60.89) or Magic Trackpad ($96.03).
Why? Till 10.6.8 it work fine. It looks to me that Apple wants te sell more of there Mouse and Trackpads.
Just bring back traditional scroll bars and arrows as a option.
Apple starting to look like Microsoft. "We know what's best for you".
Just give the OSX users a option. I'll wait for a OSX update or for some one how writes a nice small utility to bring theme back. He/She will be a hero.
A said Lion User

Bringing back hub/mb/cas server

Exchange 2010 sp3, 1 DAG, Win2k8 r2 sp1
2 MB, 1 hub main site
1 MB/CAS/hun DR site
for a long time, the Exchange server in DR site has been offline because of no available disk space. now that both the Exchange servers in main site and DR site have the same hd size for the mailbox database, i'm planning on bringing back the DR site Exchange
server.
problem is, the DR site Exchange server have the previous configurations in terms of mailbox database names, sizes. the main site Exchange servers have different database names, sizes. but both have the same drive letters.
question is, when i bring online the DR site Exchange server, how can i make it sync with the new configurations from the main site Exchange servers? should i delete the old mailbox databases in the DR site first, do a file level copy of the mailbox databases
from the main site, and then restart Exchange?

If your database is that large, your best bet for adding a second copy is to use external storage, as you suggest. However, in order to do this, you are going to need to freeze the database so it doesn't change during the time you are copying the database
and placing it onto your second server. To do this, you need to add the second database copy (without seeding it - using "Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy -SeedingPostponed" - this will save the log files necessary for the database
copy until it is available to add them) before you start copying your database files, and you will need to copy your database files while the database is offline - you can bring it back online once you have copied it. I am going to guess
that you don't have the storage necessary to host your log files for an extended time period (more than a week), so you will need to copy the database and get it placed on the second server in a very short time period in order to complete this before your
log drive is full. And if you have a lot of churn in your database, those transaction log files are going to take a very long time to copy across your WAN link so they can be read into the database copy.
An alternate solution you may consider, which won't require that the database be copied manually to the new server, is to add a new mailbox database with copies on both servers, then to move mailboxes into this database. This will allow you to grow the database
gradually, allowing the passive copy to keep up to date with the active primary. You can move the high priority mailboxes to this database first, moving to mailboxes of lower importance over time.
I'll add a final note - if you add your database copy on the weekend, you may be able to seed it across your WAN. My calculations show that this should take less than a few hours (easily less than half a day), which may be much faster than if you attempt
to copy the database to a USB device and transport it to the second datacenter. That WAN connection is going to be saturated while this copy goes on, which is why I recommend doing it on a weekend.

BAdI help us to bring leaves and planned vocations to BP availability

Hi All,
Please help me Which BAdI can help us to bring leaves and planned vocations from PA30 T code to BP availability in PS.
Regards
Subhaskar

Hi friend,
I think this link will give you an idea,
http://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/saphelp/helpdata/DE/32/fb4d40eae76f13e10000000a1550b0/23_pt_en.pdf
This is having information about different BADI available related to TM
But i think you cant find a single BADI for all these things or
See the Standard program RPTIME00 which has all the information about overtime, Quota compensation, Absence quota as well as attendance,
Check this program i think you can find any BADI or User-Exits in it for the purpose.
If your doubt still exits post this thread in HR Forum so that you can get many related replies. Please revert back to me if you still have queries
Thanks,
Sri Hari

Bring back nntp access

What are the reasons that nntp access was discontinued?
As a direct result a lot of long-time, knowledgable users seem to have abandoned the forums especially on the Macromedia side - nntp was just so much quicker let alone the possibilities to filter and quickly save topics as plain text. This is more than a bit disappointing.
Please, consider bringing back nttp access.

Yesterdays thread on this topic:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/414965?tstart=30
I do not find the public domain argument to be very satisfying. I think if some bean counter thinks the purpose of these forums is to build some body of content that can be packaged and controlled, then that person is very narrow minded.
The purpose of these forums has always been for US - the user community to share and support each other. This saves Adobe money by providing a place where people can get answers to basic to moderately complex problems without having to use expensive human resources paid for by Adobe. It also builds the good will of Adobe products in that there is a place where somebody can go and get problems solved, often quickly and easily, before they become a festering sore in a developers mind that motivates them to look for a different software solution for their tasks.
NNTP allowed a lot of very knowledgable people to be very helpful when they had a few spare moment in thier day. They could quickly scan their news reader inbox for new topics that they can help. Then they could quickly fire off a reply within the reader and move on to the next message. All this without having to wait for a browser to render a lot of JavaScript and DHTML over and over again for each and every message and reply.
The email system could be a lesser substitue for this functionality if it worked correctly. But, to date, my experience with it has been less then encouraging. The mesages are comming in all jumbled up, the subects have these long, unimportant strings "[ColdFusion and Flash Integrations] New message:" prepended to them so that I can not easily tell what they are. The emails do not properly follow the email RFC standard so that my email reader can properly thread the messages, thus I can not easily follow in topics in any given forum. I just get a random quote that is meainingless without context and the only way to get that context seems to be to fire up a browser. Replying to them is problematic where I have seen my and other users messages completely dissapear when processed by this system, resulting in a blank box for a reply.
I was a long time NNTP user that enjoyed helping my fellow ColdFusion developers on these forums whenever I had a few free moments in my day. But I do not forsee myself sticking it out for very long in this new forum if there is not some improvment, or at least some communication or acknowlegement of some hope for improvement, from the powers that be. All we seem to get is that there is no NNTP, there are no plans for NNTP, the email does not work as expected, but there is no acknowlegement of what, if anything, is going to be done about that either.
I know that I am not alone in this manner. I know that those that are most vocal about this issue where some of the most knowlegable and frequently helpful people of the previous forums and I just can not imagine how the quality of this resource is going to be improved by their loss, no matter how subjectivily pretty the new web interface is juged to be.
I give myself another day or two to see if I can somehow make this work, then I will move on and check back in a few months to a year to see if anything has improved.

Bring back Amply/Fade and other comments

Hi,
Please bring back Amplify/Fade.
Here is my workflow:
When I record concerts (I frequently combine audio with video, but this is not necessarily the case), I need to cut audio CDs. After cleaning up the audio files and applying affects (EQ, etc.), I use track markers to delineate where song tracks begin and end. I then use Amply/Fade with the Fade Out option on small sections where the song ends. Of course, if the beginning of the song has a beginning that is abrupt to the point of being jarring, I can use a Fade In option. After fades have been applied, I switch to CD mode and burn the selected tracks to CD. One of the great things about Amply/Fade is that one gets consistent results every time. Drag fading (available for the beginning and end of clips) might be "fun", but I regard it as more difficult to apply consistent results.
The fact that the CD burn functionality is missing from CS 5.5 really restricts my ability to give CS 5.5 a fair audition. I think that CS 5.5 sounds better than AA 3 (and this is really important to me if this attribute carries through to the finished product), but the final proof is in listening to the finished product. Yeah, I can burn in AA 3 or by using some other product, but I have doubts as to whether I revert to AA 3 for burning, I am losing the improved sound qualities)..
Back to Amply/Fade...I accept, to some degree, the need to release this rewritten product without all of its previous functionality. So, part of my evaluation process was to see how well CS 5.5 records and if its effects were not sufficient for me, to use it as a shell for third-party VST plugin effects. My reasoning is that, possibly, it would be more productive and might be somewhat cost effective to stay with Audition than switch to another DAW. While Ozone 4 appears to work with CS 5.5 (it shows, although I have yet to test it), some other VST plugins erroneously are disabled.
Suggestions:
If possible, publish a roadmap for your customers, in terms of what features you plan to reintroduce and when they should reappear. I realize that I risk sounding arrogant with a request like this, but at least for me, 12 to 18 months waiting for a "maybe" is just too much. It would be good if interim releases could restore at least some missing functionality before CS 6. Also, before the release of CS 6 (maybe this was done for CS 5.5), evaluate the product in terms of beta user reaction to the feature set.
Final thoughts:
It would be good if you could post a compelling features list. I have roughly 27 or 28 days left on my trial. It's obvious that many useful features are missing. Rather than spending the remaining time puzzling over missing features, I would prefer to spend my time gushing over how CS 5.5 would be a great addition to my tools. Yes, the performance seems a little faster and it plays nicer with my current audio interface, but from the point of testing basic features, the speed doesn't matter. And, in the end, it's quality of results and ability to adopt an easy workflow that matters. The non-modal dialog design is welcome. In itself, however, it's not enough.
Thanks,
Steve

Hi RY,
I can't explain why, but it sounds more "open" or more "spacious". This is just a matter of wild speculation, but the best way I can guess at what's going on is that it might sound like there is an EQ boost at some point in the spectrum without having to add one. I have not tried every possible combination, but for an audio clip recorded with CS 5.5 at 192khz and then played back within both AA 3 and CS 5.5, I can detect a difference. And, while I have a decent audio interface, I think that my audio monitors would generally be considered to be insufficient for mastering purposes. Perhaps someone else can weigh in (possibly from Adobe) and tell me that I am imagining things, but Durin has, in an earlier posting, said that CS 5.5 should sound as good or better.
Steve

Data Back Up Plan

Hi,
My internal hard drive, 320 GB, 'fully loaded', on my 2 year old imac crashed 10 days ago.
Since I had the extended warranty, the 'local' Apple store replaced the internal drive within hours
at no charge and even loaded Snow Leopard and iLife. With a well updated TimeMachine on an external hard drive I was back working at my imac the next day. When I realized after the crash that my precious 250 GB of pictures in Adobe Lightroom and iPhoto, along with a few videos were saved on just one older Maxtor external hard drive, it made me think about a more solid back up procedure.
The idea now is to move all big volume files to one or more external hard drives.
In the meantime I have transfered the iPhoto and Lightroom files to an external hard drive (WD MyBook II, 2x1 TB in RAID 1), which gives me the first layer of back up: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/552322-REG/WesternDigital_WDH2Q20000N_2TB_My_BookStudio.html
In a second step I am planning on making a clone (with SuperDuper or CarbonCopy) of the internal hard drive (mainly operating systems and applications) and the external hard drive (all big data files) on one additional external hard drive, i.e. OWC Mercury Elite AL Pro Raid 0, 2 TB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME8Q7T20GB64/
I am looking for advise here:
Do SuperDuper or CarbonCopy (I only know the names from the discussion forums) allow me to make a clone from 2 separate hard drives
Would it be good practice to create a large clone of ultimately 2 TB with ALL files or wouldn't it be better to make 2 clones , one of the internal and one of the external drive.
TimeMachine had helped me to get back to work quickly after the crash. I expect to fill the WD 1TB drive rather quickly. Where should I plan on using Time Machine in my new back up plan?
Would appreciate comments and advise.

reckling wrote:
Do SuperDuper or CarbonCopy (I only know the names from the discussion forums) allow me to make a clone from 2 separate hard drives
No. A clone is of your boot volume only. But those apps can make separate backups of multiple drives, either to multiple drives or to separate partitions on the same drive.
Would it be good practice to create a large clone of ultimately 2 TB with ALL files or wouldn't it be better to make 2 clones , one of the internal and one of the external drive.
2 is not only better, but your only option with CCC or SD.
TimeMachine had helped me to get back to work quickly after the crash. I expect to fill the WD 1TB drive rather quickly. Where should I plan on using Time Machine in my new back up plan?
There is no "right" answer, just a number of possibilities. Some thoughts:
You could use TIme Machine to back up both your internal HD and the WD set to the OWC, if it's at least twice the size of the data on both. It looks like it can be configured as a +Concatenated RAID set+ (both drives into a single 2 TB volume), so that should work well.
Or use TM to back up your OSX drive, and CCC or SD to back-up the media drive.
The CCC or SD backups usually aren't practical to run more than once a day, so consider them your "secondary" backups.
Also strongly consider getting something off-site (safe deposit box, workplace, relative's house, etc.), so you're also protected against fire, flood, theft, direct lightning strike on your power lines. Portable external HDs are great for that. Some things may even be appropriate to take to DVDs.
The problem with that is, there aren't many portables over about 640 GB (LaCie has a 1 TB for either $300 or $400: http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11357).
CCC is donationware, so you can use it free for a while. If you decide to keep it, send them some $$ so they can keep it up to date. SD has a free version, but to do updates (rather than a full replacement) or automatic scheduling, you need the paid version (about $30). Either is available via Google, VersionTracker.com, or MacUpdate.com.

Mac Pro's (early 2008) Back up plan towards a possible OS upgrade to Yosemite

Hello All. Here’re some of the details/background info…hopefully all this won’t be so annoying. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Thanks a bunch!
I have 2 Mac Pro’s (Early 2008) 3,1 both running SL (10.6.8). One I have been using non-stop throughout these years, I’d call it MP 2008 (A). The other one once belong to a friend who actually bought it around the same time I purchased mine, only that he didn’t use it much and just recently decided to sell it to me. I’d call it MP 2008 (B). Both MP’s are very light on data on the main, boot HD, just applications,… as everything I work on is kept in external hard drives and backups. I do not usually download any third party stuff (only when strictly necessary for my work) and essentially it’s all about the software and applications (Adobe CS3 and LR 0.2) I need to do my pretty basic work.
All pretty old stuff by now, I know.
Following a couple of mishaps and lots of good advice in these forums, (thanks to the hatter, etc.) I went ahead and bought 16GB of RAM for both, and an NVidia Graphics Card (all from Amazon.com) for my MP 2008 (A) to replace it after it went bad, and everything has been working just fine. As you can tell, I have not tried to upgrade much, but rather keep everything stock and running as smoothly as possible.
I am afraid the next big, important thing I MUST do is back up my almost 6 years-old HD (I know, it should’ve been done long ago). Frankly, I have never done it before because I didn’t even know that could be possible…I learned about it right here, in this forum. In this sense, much I have also read (here) about the SSD option, and about how great of an upgrade that could be too, but I have decided to stick to the regular 3.5” for now. (I just recently found out those SSD even existed!). Hopefully, once I gain a bit of confidence on how this works I’ll jump into the SSD option, cards, etc. So, I purchased 2X 3.5” SATA III HD’s to try cloning my MP 2008 (A) boot, main HD and get this process over with.
QUESTIONS
QUESTION #1: After installing the internal hard drives in bays 2 and 3: Do I have to specifically format them in order to turn them into bootable copies? If so, how do I do that? I have read about using ‘Disk Utility’ to format external hard drives for this purpose but I don’t know if that would apply for internal hard drives as well.
QUESTION #2: What are the settings/features you all recommend I should select/or deselect on CCC so I can have exact, bootable copies of my original HD? No fancy stuff, advanced options, etc…just what I need to have good enough copies that just work.
QUESTION #3: How do I test them?
I noticed that under “System Preferences/System/Startup Disk” I can select the drive/system I want to use to start up my computer from. My question is:
QUESTION #4: Can I permanently choose any of the Mac Pro four (4) bays/bootable hard drives as the main drive/system for startup? I always thought I could only be done from the original, ‘main’ bootable drive in bay 1.
QUESTION #5: What if the copy fails? How do I go back to the HD that works or to the next copy, for that matter?
About my MP 2008 (B): In an effort to sell me his MP, my friend (as knowledgeable as I am) messed up something that delays the start up a lot. I noticed that in the finder, the applications appear double, etc., so I am not so happy with it. Even though the little house icon has his name in the finder, he was able to make me the Administrator for the machine (I don’t know how). But again, it starts up to the typical chime, then a gray screen for quite a loooong while, then the apple logo, then the loading animation…and theeennnn it starts…and no known issues from there. In other words, I am sure he messed something up there while transferring this machine to me and now its startup is so delayed.
QUESTION #6: Let’s say that both the bootable HD copies I created on my MP 2008 (A) work fine: Can I take one out and install it in my MP 2008 (B) and eventually turn it into my startup drive and work from there too? Will this eventually lead to conflicting stuff? (Two machines, same identical cloned start up drive??).
Eventually, the plan is that I learn how to do all this so I can move on and upgrade with a clean install of Yosemite pretty soon.
Hopefully, both my Mac Pro’s 2008 A and B will last me a bit more and I can get to squeeze a few more seasons from them. They are awesome machines!
As you can tell, in theory I might have a little bit of a clue, but all is in the details. If you don’t mind, please shed some light on this process I am about to begin…thanks a bunch!

Thank you!
Kappy Nov 24, 2014 3:01 PM
Re: Mac Pro's (early 2008) Back up plan towards a possible OS upgrade to Yosemite in response to Juan Huerta
All new drives need to be partitioned GUID and formatted Mac OS Extended, Journaled before they can be used.
OK, is that an option I'll be prompted to by the OS or do I have to "tell" that to...Disk Utilities (?)
If cloning is your purpose then use Disk Utility's Restore option. It will clone the drives and their Recovery HD partitions automatically.
I didn't know that Disk Utility had an option for cloning a bootable drive...is it better than CCC? (I have used neither one) I really would like to save $40 and avoid downloading additional software/applications...please if you don't mind...what option would that be once I click on "Disk Utility"? If you know of a good link or reliable article on the topic that will work for me too.
Test a clone be trying to boot the computer from it.
Any bootable drive in any bay can be used to boot the computer. Use Startup Drive preferences to set the desired boot volume.
Erase the target and try again.
But if the computer fails to start because I didn't create a good copy, how do I go back? Keyboard shortcuts? I keep reading that a wired keyboard must be used...and that's scary. If that's true, could I hook up any of my Windows based keyboards via USB?
Erase the drive and install OS X. You cannot use any software installed by the prior owner that was purchased via the App Store including OS X. You must start from scratch. (this actually is 5B rather than item 6.)
Well, he created an Admin account for me and I have been handling updates and everything with the new password he created for me. I wonder if I could access the Apple Store with my ID though...it's all under my name in that computer though, so I figure that at the Apple Store I'd just enter my ID...I guess, I have not tried that yet
Yes.

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