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From: steve jenkin <stevej098@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?
Date: Sun,  2 Oct 2011 14:07:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E87D563.7070304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15f7b46d12f6e7300770064ef67547d7@brasstown.quanstro.net>

erik quanstrom wrote on 2/10/11 1:37 PM:
>  it's all block storage.
>

Nope.
In the same way that RAM is finely differentiated with many
incompatibilities & 'gotchas'.
It's not "all memory".

Go away and actually *do* the thing you are suggesting, then tell us how
you went.

Get 3-4 macbooks. Preferably a range of machines: old to new.
Get 8-12 replacement drives, differing ages, capacities and types.

Do your "just pull the drive out and copy it" multiple times on each
machine.
To be valid, you have to swap drives between machines and have then work
properly.
No cheating, fully reconstruct machines between tests.
Wearing out screws/fittings is a classic weakness on single-assembly
designs.

Quicker solution:
 point us to a web-page where your suggestion is done, even once.
 Bonus for a webpage where someone does exactly what you're suggesting,
multiple machines, many drive types.

--
Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist.
0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-02  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 15:19 Axel Belinfante
2011-09-30 15:53 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 17:43   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 17:59     ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:21       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:42         ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:45           ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:53             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01  8:21       ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-01 15:14       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 15:24         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:48           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 16:49             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-10-01 18:21         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-10-01 18:29           ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-02 15:26             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-11-03 20:54       ` Michaelian Ennis
     [not found]       ` <CAAQydVjZ42C-GTEFT7E2t=dCQ35fvHzqjSYx9a3o+8v+5D1vfA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-03 20:57         ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-01 18:15   ` smiley
2011-11-01 18:57     ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 19:50 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2011-10-01 15:21   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 20:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-30 21:15 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-01 17:22 ` John Stalker
2011-10-02  0:35 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02  1:28   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02  2:28     ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02  2:37       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02  3:07         ` steve jenkin [this message]
2011-10-02 12:38           ` Iruatã Souza
2011-10-03  3:57             ` steve jenkin
2011-10-03  4:02               ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 13:30           ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-10-03  3:47             ` steve jenkin

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