From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4E87D563.7070304@gmail.com> References: <7828850E-D4E3-4621-B425-98423B95E1C4@cs.utwente.nl> <4E87B1D1.9020603@gmail.com> <906e80d587e99006633899b8d56be210@brasstown.quanstro.net> <4E87CC5A.1090006@gmail.com> <15f7b46d12f6e7300770064ef67547d7@brasstown.quanstro.net> <4E87D563.7070304@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:38:21 -0300 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Iruat=C3=A3_Souza?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f1f65c6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:07 AM, steve jenkin wrote: > erik quanstrom wrote on 2/10/11 1:37 PM: >> =C2=A0it'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: > =C2=A0point us to a web-page where your suggestion is done, even once. > =C2=A0Bonus for a webpage where someone does exactly what you're suggesti= ng, > multiple machines, many drive types. > > -- > Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist. > 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) > PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA > > stevej098@gmail.com http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin > > > you know so much, and yet you failed to read that this is not a mac list.