Backing up System drive to 800 FW drive--

Hi All --

I want to back up my system drive --
I just purchased a OWC FW 800 drive -500 gig-

The drive came with Super Duper that I want to use copy my system drive with-

My system drive has 130 gigs used on it--
So I copied Super Duper to my system drive--

Now comes the questions --

Should I Zero out the new drive?

Can I set the new drive to Extended - and have both the Back Up
of System Drive and Also capture video to the new drive ??

Do I need to Partition the new drive ???
If so can you point me to the info on how to do this --

Thanks for your help--Jay--

I use SuperDuper like this:
I have a 1TB drive partitioned in three chunks - 80GB/80GB/the rest.
Each 80GB partition is devoted to backing up my two systems main drives. I run smart-update from SuperDuper on both systems fairly regularly so that I have a bootable backup of each systems' main drive.

The system drives are both 80GB in size, so for your system I would suggest partitioning the new drive in two chunks, one that mirrors the size of your system drive, and the rest for data. They're both MacOS X extended without journaling. I test the bootable backup every once in a while for piece of mind. The data partition (mostly media) is backed up to a naked SATA drive through a SATA dock and my data is backup up in the cloud and in the naked SATA drives off site.

You don't need to zero the drive just partition it through Disk Utility.

ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!

I recommend against using the backup drive for video capture, though. Not so much that the drive can't handle it (it can), but because by definition, a backup drive should be out of action so that if anything happens to your system globally, you take the drive from the shelf and restore what you've lost.

Get another, separate drive for active video editing.


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I don't partition drives. Backup Drive is for Backup.

...period.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

im with derek and joey. back up drive is for backup. if you use it for new work, you are kind of negating its whole reason for being...

yeah, dont partition it. just format it as mac extended journaled. superdupe to it and put it on a shelf untill your next back up.

Hi All --
Thanks for the info and help--

I left out something on my first post- Ouch
I have 2 OWC -- one drive is 2 yrs old -

I think I will do a mix of ideas --
Back up to new drive now --
then swap to Back Up Only drive--

Thanks for your Time and Help
You All are the Best --Jay--