Why not Time Machine? Posted on January 4th
“A couple of commenters asked why I use the ChronoSync + SuperDuper! combination instead of just Time Machine. The main reason? Time Machine uses too many resources. It's also slow. For awhile I avoided it because I wasn't sure how to make a bootable backup, but Mac OS X hints has instructions. I don't always have my external hard drives plugged in since I'm rocking a laptop and am pretty mobile. Time Machine complained every hour, on the hour, that it couldn't find the drive it wanted for long enough to annoy me. Eventually it stops complaining about not being able to find the drive it wants. Even if you leave the drive plugged in while working at your base location, for me it's ...” Tagged as MacBook, OS X, Rant, Technology, Travel, adSense | No Comments » | Continue
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