Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:26:22 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Stuart Krivis <ipswitch@apk.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crap OS X Message-ID: <200105150226.f4F2QM558684@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Stuart Krivis <ipswitch@apk.net> of "Mon, 14 May 2001 20:11:07 EDT." <200105150011.f4F0BCS12970@madcap.apk.net>
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Stuart Krivis writes: > > One of my cow-orkers got the same deal. She got an Outpost.com slinky > too. :-) Purchased a Seagate 5400 RPM 40G ATA-100 drive $115 from Outpost last week, arrived this morning, and took a few moments to realize what that plastic spiral thing was. > > Part of my problem is I have about 10 years of history in the Mac > > files I > > drag around. Is terribly easy to buy a new machine with bigger HD, drag > > the entire old HD to a folder in the new, and everything works. > > Maybe you could just burn some of this to CD? I did this with Photoshop > since I no longer use it very much. If I need it, I just drag it to my > HD, use it, and drag it to the trash when I'm done. I have a nice collection of DDS tapes with exactly that on it. But the whole point was that with enough disk space there is no motivation to clean up my mess. I just bring the old filesystems with me as folders on the new. After the initial move I use StuffIt on the old System Folder and trash the original. A Mac is wonderful about being perfectly happy to run an OS restored from a compressed archive. A Mac is wonderful about letting you drag/drop INIT's, CDEV's, preferences, and extensions from one System Folder to another. Other things I trash are multiple copies of Disk First Aid, Simple Text, Qued/M, Nisus, MacDraw Pro ... > > Retrospect from Dantz is about the only Mac backup utility available. > > Its > > > > Veritas Backup Exec also has a Mac client. Retrospect is quite good > though. Too bad they don't support unix... "client" won't cut my mustard. Then again, I run Retrospect clients on other Macs and NT systems to back *them* up. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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