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| Another point: Why do I need to use Linux to backup the Macintosh? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/19/2013, 6:09am PDT | ||||
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| Don't I realize that there are Macintosh-based backup programs, many of them free? Yes, but if I have to restore the image to the drive, I need something to boot the machine with, and I do not have a boot disk for OS X. I'm not going to spend upwards of $50 to buy a copy of an already admittedly obsolete operating system, either buying OSX 10.4 or the last release that ran on the Power PC, OS X 10.5. That's the general price people are selling copies of the older operating system, at, near, or possibly above full list retail price as it was when it was new. (If you have an Intel Mac you can buy an upgrade to Mountain Lion directly from Apple for $20.) I guess the eBay sellers of the older releases of OS X figure if someone needs a copy of the disc they can get full price for it.
I got copies of Linux for Power PC off eBay for under $10, and they are usable as Live CD (or Live DVD, not sure which it is), so they can be used without installing, an important point when I need to back up a drive on a machine. If I can back up the drive from a CD boot, I can also restore the drive, if necessary, in the same fashion. It just hit me, I have some internal hard drives and I have external hard drive kits allowing a hard drive to run as a USB, so I could just take one of these, if there's anything of significance, make a copy of it, wipe the drive, then use 'dd' to copy the current drive to the external, then take that as an image and store it either on the NAS, the WD backup, or both. But I still would have to bring the Mac back in here because I'd need to run it directly on the network (the driver for the Tenda wireless adapter might not operate when it's run on Linux) and because I would have to connect the mouse, keyboard and monitor directly since the VNC server would not be running when the machine booted on Linux until I was able to install it, so that's going to need to wait until the current backup of the NAS finishes. Which is okay, I have an errand to run today. Oh, and for anyone who actually bothers to read this, a bonus, I'm doing another cooking video. I just bought a new frying pan and I'm going to demonstrate the use of one of the "As Seen On TV" pans, the Orgreenic. |
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NAS Backup: 1,038,795 items found, 516 GB to copy by 05/18/2013, 9:17am PDT  Good News: It's got only one day left! by 05/19/2013, 5:48am PDT 2 Hours and 55 minutes remaining by 05/20/2013, 1:06am PDT Another point: Why do I need to use Linux to backup the Macintosh? by 05/19/2013, 6:09am PDT Correction: It is a Seagate drive, not WD NT by 05/19/2013, 6:12am PDT Of course it's a Seagate, you cheap motherfucker. NT by 05/19/2013, 2:23pm PDT Oh please by 05/20/2013, 1:42am PDT Every product must be reliable given the business hasn't gone bankrupt yet. NT by 05/20/2013, 6:04am PDT Hahahah. You're poor. And I did not read a word of that wall of craziness. by 05/20/2013, 11:44am PDT Because you don't have 10.5, the first version with Time Machine? by 05/19/2013, 9:46am PDT Re: Another point: Why do I need to use Linux to backup the Macintosh? by 05/28/2013, 12:12am PDT Re: Another point: Why do I need to use Linux to backup the Macintosh? by 05/28/2013, 5:26pm PDT |
