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I know I've seen a few mentions of some backup around here, but I want to confirm a few things.
In my system, I have a 64GB SSD that contains the OS, while I have a 500GB HDD that contains my home folder. Ideally, I would like to have the following happen:
For a scheduled period (once a week, for example), have my computer wake from sleep in the middle of the night (2 AM, for example), start Carbon Copy Cloner, make an incremental backup of both drives, and then go back to sleep.
What I'm really trying to figure out is what my best option is for backing up, and then restoring. How do I need to backup my system so that I can easily restore my system from that backup, should something happen? I know that you can restore from a .DMG in disk utility by booting from a snow leopard disk, for example, but is it possible to make incremental backups to a .DMG file in CCC? Does anyone else have any recommendations for a backup solution that would be cleaner/easier/more efficient?
The last question with regard to my SSD. I have a SSD that doesn't have one of the sandforce controllers, so I thought I read that I will need to do some maintenance on every so often on the drive, but unsure of what is recommended. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it as simple as wiping the drive and restoring it from a backup?
Thanks all for your help.
In my system, I have a 64GB SSD that contains the OS, while I have a 500GB HDD that contains my home folder. Ideally, I would like to have the following happen:
For a scheduled period (once a week, for example), have my computer wake from sleep in the middle of the night (2 AM, for example), start Carbon Copy Cloner, make an incremental backup of both drives, and then go back to sleep.
What I'm really trying to figure out is what my best option is for backing up, and then restoring. How do I need to backup my system so that I can easily restore my system from that backup, should something happen? I know that you can restore from a .DMG in disk utility by booting from a snow leopard disk, for example, but is it possible to make incremental backups to a .DMG file in CCC? Does anyone else have any recommendations for a backup solution that would be cleaner/easier/more efficient?
The last question with regard to my SSD. I have a SSD that doesn't have one of the sandforce controllers, so I thought I read that I will need to do some maintenance on every so often on the drive, but unsure of what is recommended. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it as simple as wiping the drive and restoring it from a backup?
Thanks all for your help.