Hello All On 13/05/2004, at 23:44, futurebasic-digest-help@... wrote: >> On the same tack, I am still utterly horified by the >> near impossibility to backup and or clone a >> operational OSX. I have always ratcheted up my Mac OS >> configurations reverting to the most recent backup >> that that worked well -- when I get out beyond >> understanding and repair -- as often happens after a >> thunking big installation. >> >> Any progress there? >> > > Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner ? > It's available from: > http://www.bombich.com > (I think ?) CCC is the biz. At first I did not believe anything as easy as CCC could work. I cloned my main computer to a firewire drive and then restarted from that. Everything, right down to the icon positions on the dock, email etc. was exactly the same. Enough to be quite confusing and worrying. I repeated the process again a couple of times to make sure. I did both copies to the entire HD, and cloned to a folder. All worked 100%. Since then I have swapped computers twice or more, and cloned a setup with two internal drives... a 3 partition 120 gig drive and and a 180 gig drive into similar stuff on new computers without any problem at all in little more than an hour or two. Since I have either got the first computer, one of the internal drives removed, or another firewire drive to fall back on for a week or so, the process is not so scary. However the result has always been 100%. We now use it at work to set up new computers for customers with all the software and a new OS. Just pull the new computer out of the box, start up with the firewire drive, and clone it onto the new computer. This was not possible with the old OS's. So, until CCC, I was of the same opinion as Al (?) Horrified. Now, I can get a new computer and in about 1.5 hours, be up and working on what looks and feels exactly like the old one. Much better than before. HTH JC ============================================================= John Clark Aeronaut Automation Unit 42, 5 Ponderosa Parade, Warriewood NSW 2102, Australia Phone: 61 2 9997 2842 Fax: 61 2 9979 5615 email: JohnC@... http://www.Aeronaut.org =============================================================