[DM-MUG] Fwd: Dr. Mac's Guide to Backing Up Your Mac -- The Mac Observer

[Victoria L. Herring]

Kristau, thanks for your outline of backing up = when you master 
RsyncX maybe you could present on it = we could have a meeting to 
deal with the Q of backing up perhaps.  [I did write an article about 
the issue about a year ago for a lawyer-focused magazine]

I do have a couple of Q arising out of your post and hope anyone who 
knows can answer

1.  is the System [OS X] folder so unimportant that it can be 
discarded/not backed up?  What's in it that might be worth 'saving'???

2.  I have backed up Applications mainly because I have alot of apps 
that it'd be a royal pain to reinstall...though you make a good point 
about that being possible.  One Caution however = there are some 
Apps. that have essential files inside their  Apps. folders and if 
you don't back those ones up, that could be a problem.

Many years ago I used Retrospect at my law office.  I had a tech guy 
help set up the schedule...He did not include the either the Apps or 
System folder [I forget now which].  We had a problem arise and I 
needed to recover two weeks worth of billing information 
[money!!!]....I couldn't because Retrospect was not set up to back up 
my Applications/System folder [this is OS9 I think] -- and Timeslips 
had all its data in the Apps./System folder and it was not being 
backed up==  so I had to spend alot of time [as did staff] to 
re-create whatever time slips and expense items were appropriate for 
that lost two weeks.
As a result, I probably over-back up.

That is another reason I am taking some time to reconsider my actual 
strategy [I can use BAckup3 for some and SuperDuper for most, and 
have Silverkeeper for good measure].
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