Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

["Iruatã Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:07 AM, steve jenkin <stevej098@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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you know so much, and yet you failed to read that this is not a mac list.