08-21-2006, 04:31 PM
Is there anyway to do incremental backups, that will result in a bootable disk, rather than a bunch of coded files that can be used to (hopefully) "restore" a disk into a replica of the original disk?
I know I can make a bootable copy using CCC or SuperDuper, but that requires copying the whole disk over each time, a tedious project. Also I find that the cloning often takes several attempts to make a bootable copy.
On the other hand, the the sort of compressed backup files most backup programs make have always scared me because they need to be expanded before they can be used, which not only requires another HD (I like to alway keep an crashed HD intact, since on several occasions I have managed to recover vital info after the backup turned out to be no good) but means you have no way to verify the content and have to take it on faith it will work.
What I'd like is something that would make a usable as is, bootable, clone of my drive, then do incremental backups on it to keep it up to date.
Is this possible?
I know I can make a bootable copy using CCC or SuperDuper, but that requires copying the whole disk over each time, a tedious project. Also I find that the cloning often takes several attempts to make a bootable copy.
On the other hand, the the sort of compressed backup files most backup programs make have always scared me because they need to be expanded before they can be used, which not only requires another HD (I like to alway keep an crashed HD intact, since on several occasions I have managed to recover vital info after the backup turned out to be no good) but means you have no way to verify the content and have to take it on faith it will work.
What I'd like is something that would make a usable as is, bootable, clone of my drive, then do incremental backups on it to keep it up to date.
Is this possible?