HELP: Somewhat complex question on backing up to external HD.
Hi,
I am Running a MacPro Dual core Xeon 2.66 and running Leopard and Snow Leopard on 2 different HDs.
I am using TM to back up each to 2 different External CalDigit VR Mini's using eSATA.
I also wanted to have a Bootable BU of each OS drive in case of drive failure.
I used a 1 TB CalDigit VR set to RAID 1 and partitioned it 550GB/500GB one partition for each OS drive backup.
I made what was supposed to be a bootable clone of the SL drive using CCC.
To test it I restarted while holding down the option key... Only the drives for Leopard and Snow Leopard showed as boot choices. The cloned partition on the external CalDigit that supposedly had a bootable copy of SL did not appear.
I rebooted into SL and found that while my internal drives appear on my desktop with icons that look like Hard Drives, the 2 partitions on my external CalDigit look like yellow rectangles with firewire symbols on them... I figure that this might have something to do with the MacPro mot seeing them as bootable on startup.
I partitioned the external drive in Leopard and the CalDigit shows as GUID though each individual partition does not. Can separate partitions on external drives not be set up as bootable backups or have I not set the backups up properly, ergo the Yellow drive icons on the desktop?
Any ideas?
There are very very few controllers for Mac Pro that are bootable.
Some Mac Pro can use #5 & 6 SATA ports run external; else there is USB and FireWire.
You have a good image of the system, you can even put images on sparse disk images. And you can restore those as needed.
The most important boot volume I find to have around is a small emergency partition for running maintenance programs. And only takes ~20GB.
The external enclosure may prevent booting even if it is on SATA ports using #5 & 6 ports.
Some external cases are not supported by 2-channel cards like Sonnet E2P to begin with.
CCC keeps being updated. I switched over to SuperDuper after yrs of use of CCC.
Snow Leopard made changes to partitions, and to RAID, and I strongly recommend any RAID or drive even if it is to boot Leopard or both, to be formatted with the latest version of Disk Utility.
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It is the same question with photos. I want to save a lot of albums to my ext. hd, and then remove them from my iMac library. But then, when I make new photos, I want to back up just the new ones to the ext. hd.
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Thanks very much in advance.
iMac 17In 1.25Ghz, 1 gig ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)I need to make some space on my hard drive. Music and
photos are filling it much too fast. I bought a
Maxtor One Touch II, 200 gig to do this with. It is
USB 2.
You would have gotten much better performance out of a Firewire drive. Too late now, I guess.
I have searched the forums, and the more I read, the
more confused I get.
If I am understanding things right, for both music
and photos, I need to go to my home folder and copy
the music folder and the pictures folder to the
external hard drive. Is this correct? Do I just do
drag and drop. (By the way I have the latest version
of iTunes, but only iPhoto 4. )
Yes, drag and drop will work fine. There are also some programs out there for managing iTunes and iPhoto libraries. You can probably find some on www.versiontracker.com
Then, if I add some more music or more photos, how do
I move them without copying everything twice? I know
there are syncing programs out there, but the problem
is that once I put some of the music/photos on the
external hard drive, I would like to wipe them off my
iMac drive. For instance, Christmas music. I would
like to have the playlist preserved, but most of the
year there is no point in having Christmas music
taking up space on my iMac hard drive, so I would
like to eliminate it. Perhaps I am misunderstanding,
but it seems that with most syncing programs, if I
delete it from my iMac library (after copying to ext
hd) and then try to sync it later, I will lose the
Christmas music on my ext. hard drive, as the sync
program tries to make the external look like the iMac
library. (I hope I am explaining this well.)
It is the same question with photos. I want to save a
lot of albums to my ext. hd, and then remove them
from my iMac library. But then, when I make new
photos, I want to back up just the new ones to the
ext. hd.
You probably will want to move your iTunes and iPhoto libraries to the external drive; then you have to tell iTunes and iPhoto where to look for the new library locations. That way you just keep all your photos and music on the external drive all the time. It's easy to change the location of your iTunes library in iTunes Preferences (last pane, I think). I don't know how to do it in iPhoto.
I assume I do the same with documents. My question
with documents is when I do a new document, can I
just drag the document to the appropriate folder on
the external hard drive? For example, if when I copy
my documents folder from my home folder, one of the
folders in it is “Recipes” and later I write down a
new recipe for say chocolate cake, can I just drag
the chocolate cake document to the recipe folder on
the external hard drive?
Documents are generally very small files. But just as with your music and photos, you could just save them to the external drive in the first place and not keep them on your internal drive at all.
As a precaution, I am actually pretty good about
backing up things to cds, so there is a copy of most
everything already. Just on a zillion cds.
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could not figure out an easy way to explain it all.
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