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Skriven 2011-05-08 18:53:54 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 65356 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Security
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On 5/7/11 11:27 AM, Alan Zisman -> Jean Parrot wrote:

 AZ> On 07-05-11 7:45 AM, Jean Parrot -> Alan Zisman wrote:

 JP>> Alan, hello.

 JP>> I could just go ahead and try, I will ask you first.

 JP>> The R here has one USB port. I have a spare USB HD. How can I and would
 JP>> it work, connect this HD and use Acronis to clone that R as a
 JP>> protection, as I do for all my machines. I know that I would be called
 JP>> to help if the baddies hit the R and prevention is the better medicine.

 JP>> That is quite a nice article on the possible event of the Wormies being
 JP>> hit and their popularity now makes it attractive to the malevolent.

 AZ> You boot to Acronis and use it to make an image of the drive.... is that
 AZ> the process (I haven't used Acronis in years, so I'm a bit fuzzy). It
 AZ> might work - might boot, might be able to successfully clone the Mac
 AZ> file system, etc. I haven't heard of any Mac-folks using it, but that
 AZ> doesn't mean it won't work.

Been there, done that.  It won't work.  Acronis chokes on the HFS file system.

 AZ> However, there are several Mac-centric solutions you might want to try
 AZ> instead - if only because of not needing to boot out of the Mac OS.
 AZ> Among them:

 AZ> - Apple's Time Machine. Since you have OS X 10.5 or 10.6 running on the
 AZ> Air, this is already installed. It is designed to make a complete HD
 AZ> backup to an external USB hard drive, then update it regularly. Perhaps
 AZ> the best thing about it is that support for it is built into Apple's OS
 AZ> installer - you can boot to the OS X install disc (or USB key) that came
 AZ> with Air, and restore from a Time Machine backup. Or, after
 AZ> re-installing OS X, you're given the option to restore from a TM backup;
 AZ> fully restoring the HD or restoring user accounts, documents,
 AZ> applications, etc.

That works well. It also reduces any fragmentation.  While the Mac OS does well
with keeping fragmentation down on large files, it does poorly on smaller files
and free space.

 AZ> -- Carbon Copy Cloner - while run from within Mac OS X, this free backup
 AZ> product creates a bootable disc that can be used for restoration.

 AZ> http://www.bombich.com/download.html

CCC and SuperDuper both do an outstanding job of cloning.  However, both
require the external drive be formatted to HFS+.

Did you get a chance to look over the new iMacs? I'll be heading to the local
Apple store next week to buy the least expensive one for our ministry.

Regards.

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