Week of Tips [Leopard] - Time Machine
Nov/14/2007 00:07 Filed in: Tips &
Tricks
Here
are some tips and tricks for your shiny new Leopard
OS, things that can make it even better for you.
Time Machine
Create a 10 gig partition on your Time Machine drive, then a second partition with all the remaining space on the drive for use with Time Machine backups. Clone the Leopard Install DVD to the 10GB partition, this way you can boot up off of that partition and be able to access your time machine data in case of an emergency. Sure you can always use your Leopard DVD, but you may or may not have it handy with you, and this method of having it on the hard drive is faster when you go to use it.
Details on how to clone the Leopard DVD to your hard drive is here on MacFixIt.
Note, I'm still running SuperDuper! in addition to Time Machine, until I'm confident that SuperDuper! is overkill in addition to Time Machine - I feel better operating using both.
Time Machine
Create a 10 gig partition on your Time Machine drive, then a second partition with all the remaining space on the drive for use with Time Machine backups. Clone the Leopard Install DVD to the 10GB partition, this way you can boot up off of that partition and be able to access your time machine data in case of an emergency. Sure you can always use your Leopard DVD, but you may or may not have it handy with you, and this method of having it on the hard drive is faster when you go to use it.
Details on how to clone the Leopard DVD to your hard drive is here on MacFixIt.
Note, I'm still running SuperDuper! in addition to Time Machine, until I'm confident that SuperDuper! is overkill in addition to Time Machine - I feel better operating using both.
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