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- eMadman
I know a bunch of you guys have macs now, so this place is ripe for the picking with my upcoming question.
I've got about 60gb of files I need to back up on my mac. I initially tried plugging in my ntsc external hdd using the nifty little hack that lets you perform full i/o operations on ntsc devices but i found that it was taking WAAAY too long - several hours just for 10 gig chunks of folders. The problem, after some research was due to some limitation with Unix and OSX... they don't play nice when it comes to copying thousands of files at a time.
So, I tried running SuperDuper... unfortunately, that wasn't interfacing with the hard drive due to the driver that I used for the ntsc drive. I compensated by running it through parallels and sharing the drive through that. Unfortunately, my best speed there was .85mb/s - that would result in over 14 hours to copy my documents folder.
Is there a faster way about backing this up? Really, all I need is to retain the file and their respective time stamps (if possible). The issue is that I want a clean Leopard install rather than this upgrade I accidentally performed. The installer was supposed to dump my prior installation to a new folder and install cleanly... it decided to do that and simply migrate my files and programs over.
The reason I want clean is because I borked Quicktime's handling of various codecs by installing some codec pack... and I've tried twiddling around with things I really should have left alone with Terminal. I'd feel more comfortable with a clean install. Of course, that means I need a proper backup first.
Any suggestions?
I've got about 60gb of files I need to back up on my mac. I initially tried plugging in my ntsc external hdd using the nifty little hack that lets you perform full i/o operations on ntsc devices but i found that it was taking WAAAY too long - several hours just for 10 gig chunks of folders. The problem, after some research was due to some limitation with Unix and OSX... they don't play nice when it comes to copying thousands of files at a time.
So, I tried running SuperDuper... unfortunately, that wasn't interfacing with the hard drive due to the driver that I used for the ntsc drive. I compensated by running it through parallels and sharing the drive through that. Unfortunately, my best speed there was .85mb/s - that would result in over 14 hours to copy my documents folder.
Is there a faster way about backing this up? Really, all I need is to retain the file and their respective time stamps (if possible). The issue is that I want a clean Leopard install rather than this upgrade I accidentally performed. The installer was supposed to dump my prior installation to a new folder and install cleanly... it decided to do that and simply migrate my files and programs over.
The reason I want clean is because I borked Quicktime's handling of various codecs by installing some codec pack... and I've tried twiddling around with things I really should have left alone with Terminal. I'd feel more comfortable with a clean install. Of course, that means I need a proper backup first.
Any suggestions?