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sir pball

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7. Are you comfortable with the commandline?

Reply to spooky3 (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 6, 2012, 08:35 AM

Oct 2012

If you are, or are interested in becoming (it's an incredibly useful skillset to have on OSX), here's a quick tutorial on using launchd to schedule a repeating task. All you'd need to set would be "sudo dd if=<startup disk> of=<backup disk>" to run however often you'd like; that's essentially all CCC does, just with a pretty frontend. Cheers!

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Time Machine backup problems [View all] spooky3 Sep 2012 OP

I was having Time Machine issues, and it turned out that my backup drive Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2012 #1

Thanks. Unfortunately, that's not the case for me. spooky3 Sep 2012 #2

Not sure if this will help anyone, but apparently the problem lies with OS 10.7.5 (recently updated) spooky3 Sep 2012 #3

Stop using Time Machine. sir pball Oct 2012 #4

I'll second your endorsement of CC. I paid the $40 to put it on our new iMac Stinky The Clown Oct 2012 #5

Apple has finally issued an update to 10.7.5 to fix the Time Machine/Spotlight issue. spooky3 Oct 2012 #6

Are you comfortable with the commandline? sir pball Oct 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Oct 2012 #8

You aren't necessarily making multiple copies sir pball Oct 2012 #9