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I have a Mac G5 dual 1.8 with 2.5 GB DDR SDRAM, factory installed 160GB HD. I recently installed a second internal Seagate 500 GB HD.
I had a WD external 500GB HD that died in 6 months (yes, I fortunately backed up all info on DVD), which they are replacing.
I have Super Duper! and am wondering the best way to utilize the two 500GB HD's since I would like to have all info backed up on two drives and also use the external as backup boot up drive.
Do I use the 160GB for only running programs? do I partition both the Internal and external 500GB (each a 160/340 split and mirror them)? Can SuperDuper! handle this kind of backup?
I hope this makes sense since I am having a confusing time trying to figure what to do. thanks!

Hi! Here's what I would probably do:
1. Clone the 160 gig drive to the 500 internal and use it as the boot
drive.
2. Clone the new 500 boot drive to the 500 external for a bootbale
backup of the entire drive. I would reclone about once a month or
longer depending on useage.
3. Once I was sure everything was working ok I'd erase the 160 and then
partition it with a small partition for an "emergency" boot drive
with a clean install of the OS on it with a copy of all utilities
such as Diskwarrior and TechtoolPro and a second partition of the
remaining space to which I would use SuperDuper to back up the user
or documents, pictures, music folder every day.
This way you have two bootable backups from with to repair any damaged directory and besides the main clone on the external you also have a backup of your documents and/or user folder every day. My problem with setting SuperDuper to clone the drive every day is that if the OS becomes unstable you may end up backing up and unstable system which could yield both systems unstable with little way to recover except a clean install.
Tom
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