Which would be the best option to backup multiple locations?
Hello,
My situation is as follows. I have a Mac mini with 250 GB HD and three external HDs with 500 GB, 1 TB and another one with 1 TB.
I would like to use the HD with 500 GB as Time Machine backup HD for the Mac mini, and one of the 1 TB HD as backup for the other.
Which would be the best option?
Using Time Machine I see that I can't set different backup location for different disks, only set multiple backup drives, but they must share the same backup directories.
You can't do that with Time Machine. You would have to use a third-party solution, such as "SuperDuper" or "CarbonCopyCloner." That's not an endorsement of either one.
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Hello.
I have been reading on a number of ways to implement following query in OWB:
update TABLE A
set Value F = (select Value B
from table B
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or ( nvl(trim(A.valueC),trim(A.valueD)) is null
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Then your join condition will be
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and BValueH = TValueH
or NullValue is null
and TValueF is null
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Then add your target table A, set it to update on the unique key. Drag the unique key from the joiner to the unique key on A, and drag ValueB to A's ValueF.
Hopefully this makes sense written out. I didn't test this, but it looks logically correct on paper.
Good luck,
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