Topic: Bootable backup (Read 2258 times)

JaimeM · « **on:** July 09, 2009, 09:11:30 pm »

I have a Mac G5 and want to do a bootable backup of it to my drobo with Carbon Copy Cloner, I selected backup everything, at the bottom of the window it has this information (The entire contents of "G5 hard drive" will be copied onto "Drobo1208", merging the contents of the two volumes. Items on "Drobo1208" will be overwritten by items at the same path on "G5 hard drive".)
Pardon my ingnorance but can anyone tell me will this wipe everthing on the Drobo that's there now? I've already had a stomach churning scare when adding another drive to the drobo (which thankfully had a happy ending) so I'm being very cautious before I press any buttons again.

Jaime

Jack Flesher · « **Reply #1 on:** July 10, 2009, 10:06:06 am »

You need to create a dedicated partition for the back-up OS to reside on the DROBO first. You could clone your OS to a folder on DROBO, but the system needs a root partition to be bootable, so you'd then have to clone that folder back to a dedicated partition to have it bootable.

jjlphoto · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2009, 10:42:35 am »

A more robust bootable clone would be on a dedicated drive, something like a cased 7200rpm FW400 drive. I wouldn't trust a clone that is part of Drobo's proprietary JBOD methodology.

JaimeM · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2009, 09:13:54 pm »

Quote from: jjlphoto

A more robust bootable clone would be on a dedicated drive, something like a cased 7200rpm FW400 drive. I wouldn't trust a clone that is part of Drobo's proprietary JBOD methodology.

Yes I tend to agree, I've found my Drobo to be really good but it is a bit of a mystery as to what's actually going on inside.

Thanks for your help.

Jaime

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