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Sleeping Better at Night
Here is a very quick way for computer users to sleep better at night:
1) Go out an purchase an external Firewire Hard Drive of equal or greater size to your computer's current one.
2) download: Carbon Copy Cloner and install it.
3) "Clone" your internal Hard drive to the external one.
You now have a bootable EXACT copy of your computer that you can keep anywhere you like. If anything goes awry you can physically swap drives and pick up where you left off. You'll have every email, every password, every file since the last time you cloned (vs. what can happen if you keep only apps on one HD and only files on another, etc.)
Once you've cloned once you can change the preferences (if you're running OS 10.3 or better) to "synchronize" (deleting files on the external HD that aren't on the main one). Getting in synch takes 15-45 minutes instead of an hour which it may take for the initial full clone.
Right now I "CCC" every Friday but frequency will depend on how much stuff you are changing/adding to your digital lifestyle.
Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on May 27, 2004 6:50 PM