Looking for article "Backup::Restore"

I am getting ready to start a backup system and trying to decide between the cloning style using SuperDuper or the archival system using Retrospect. Both have merits, if I don't catch an issue right away, SuperDuper will transfer it to my backup (making the backup useless) while Retrospect won't give me a bootable backup making disaster recover more of a challenge.
In searching the forum I found a couple of references to an article by a user named Lee Cullins, but his .Mac account where he posted it is no longer active. Does anyone have the article? I would like to read it.
Dual 2.66 Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) also have a 12 inch Powerbook

I make my living backing up several TB worth of data each night. I can't help you with locating that article you want, but I can give you a couple of suggestions.
First off though, what is your budget and how catostrophic would lost data be to you? The more important your data is, the more rigorous you will need to be with setting up a backup and disaster recovery policy.
Backup and disaster recovery is all about mitigating risk, so its different for each person or organization.
What I do with my PowerMac G5 at home is to have a second internal disk drive. The first drive is my primary boot drive. The second drive is a duplicate of the first. I only update the second drive after each OS upgrade, and only after testing the upgrade for a few days, at which time I will clone it again.
I use Superduper for that purpose. I also have all my data sitting on an external Sygate firewire disk drive. If I lose both internal drives, all I need to do is connect my external disk drive to a different Mac if I need my data quickly. My data disk does not change that much in a typical day. What I do is simply clone my data disk (with SuperDuper) once a month to a second external disk drive. I then take my secondary external disk drive and store it outside my home for safe keeping.
For my PowerMac G5 at work, I have a second internal drive for both data and the OS. I do not use any external disk drives on my Mac at work, but I do automated backups to tape of my Mac at work to a huge tape library that's located several blocks away from my office.
On my MacBook Pro, I simply copy my files via my home Airport Extreme network to the external hard drive on my desktop Mac to back them up.
What you end up doing depends on your budget, your needs, and your tollerance for disk. If you are running a mission critical server, you need to get a lot more elaborate with your backup strategy then what I do with my Macs.

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