From: Salman Aljammaz <s@aljmz.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 14:30:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHSQfyvvSV9wqP=FhZ8Y0ywXvTWXyPukS-5FKKp3xWqKKS8HpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E87D563.7070304@gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:07 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.
my mac's old hard drive, with os x and all my data, has been through 3
macbook(pro)s without a single os x reinstall. recently i dd'd it
into an ssd which replaced it with no issue.
i don't recommend this or anything; but i have on a couple of
occasions yanked the drive out of the mac and into a machine with more
storage and dd'd it as a backup (or is it archive?) i only restored
from these images once, but it worked.
unless the interface is physically incompatible with your machine, i
don't see the problem.
salman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-02 13:30 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
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 [this message]
2011-10-03 3:47 ` steve jenkin
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