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
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 a
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
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 woul
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 1
