With the mac, you can hold the option key, press left or right arrow and boot off of your external drive. Once booted, just clone your external drive to your internal, also if you would need to reinstall, you can also do that with speech, these are just a few of the many things that make the mac superior. On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
> No. Even with image for windows, you needed to insert a boot cd and pick the > backup from wherever you stored it. If you had only one, I suppose you could > memorize the keystrokes, but no speech guidance at all. > > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
