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10.4.3 update; Getting into “that backup habit”
Merlin Mann | Nov 1 2005
macosxhints - 10.4: OS X 10.4.3 update released MacOSXHints covers a few of the 500+ 10.4.3 updates that are worth not missing. Two that popped out for me:
I'll take all the Mail.app updates I can get. Now will someone please make MailEnhancer work again! Paranoia, Part II have, I must admit, become one of those people who waits a week before running OS X updates. I used to be "that excited guy" until I learned a) new cuts of Safari almost always break one or more of my (and Pimp My Safari's) must-have plugins (Saft, SafariStand, PithHelmet); b) there's nearly always at least one deal-killer booger that sends me into two days of hair-pulling kernel panics, restarts, font removals, DiskWarrior runs etc. (Yes, thanks, I actually have modded almost every aspect of my setup in incredibly haphazard ways.) As ever, kids: do yourself a favor and run a Safety Backup using SuperDuper. If anything goes kerflooey, you can do a perfect rollback to the snapshot of your disk before updating, then you're back to work with almost zero downtime. Seriously, just get in the SuperDuper habit just in general. Paranoia, Part IIA propos of nothing, here's my current backup and SuperDuper schedule:
My next, extraordinarily paranoid move; buy a 2nd 250GB external, clone from the current backup drive, and rotate offsite every other month. Crazy? You bet. Just remember Merlin's Two Immutable Laws of Data Paranoia™:
Actually, you know what? Go backup now. Just burn your Documents onto a DVD or zip up your Preferences and Gmail them to yourself. All this talk is making me really nervous. 22 Comments
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 I've a question about how...Submitted by Ed Byrne (not verified) on November 7, 2005 - 9:30am.
I've a question about how accurate your (Merlina and all the commenters!) are. Full mirrors, sync'ing and incremental backups are fine BUT what about file system changes (moving files between folders and deleting files), how do your backup programs stack up here? For sure, having the data is the most important thing. But if you're going to backup 43folders style, you want your most recent data structure preserved as well, and the files you deleted, deleted in backup too. UNLESS you made a mistake deleting a file, in which case your backup is your only recourse. So, ideally you could set your software to backup everything and modify the backup drives file structure to match yours WITHOUT re-copying your entire drive everytime (incremental-ish) and with a setting for ONLY DELETE FILES FROM BACKUP THAT WE'RE REMOVED FROM LOCAL PC over x days/weeks ago. Anyone got a system like this, or near it? I'd love to get a more simple, automated backup system than the one Merlin describes, AND a more accurate one. Having too many backups is just confusing and clutter - the opposite of GTD! Thanks in advance to any respondents ;-) » POSTED IN:
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