You could make another backup to an image file and store that some place, though you're probably fine with keeping 1 backup around. The difference between the mac and windows is, should you need to restore your system with a mac, you can do it totally without sighted help. There was never a way to do that with windows that I know of. On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
> Thanks, Mike. That's what I was thinking as well. Of course, you can schedule > carbon copy to backup daily, I suppose. I haven't looked at its scheduling > options as of yet. > When I was using windows, I used to backup using image for windows weekly, > but not much more than that. Occasionally, I would do a backup before > installing some piece of software which I thought might mess up my computer; > but mostly backed up each saturday. > The only thing I miss, and I'm not sure carbon copy can do this, is that I > used to keep at least one backup from the previous week; so I always had two; > the one from the previous week and the one from the current week. > I know they have that archiving thing, but I'm not exactly sure how that > works. It doesn't sound like it allows for keeping two backups then allowing > you to pick which one to restore from. > > On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Mike wrote: > >> I use carbon copy cloner also. About the only advantage time machine might >> give you is hourly backups of your files that have changed, this might be >> useful if you make frequent changes to documents or something similar. >> Otherwise, there is probably no need to use them both. >> On Aug 17, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: >> >>> Hi, guys. I'm currently running Carbon copy as well as time machine. But >>> I'm wondering why I'm doing that. >>> Does it make any sense to run both since carbon copy will create a bootable >>> disk and can also be scheduled just like time machine? >>> It appears it's easier to do a restore with carbon copy; so is time machine >>> really necessary if you have another backup solution? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
