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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1528319" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Probably not what you want to hear, but, as the "light of your life", do her a big humongous favor and spring another $60-$100 and get an external drive for backups. Backups on the same drive may as well not be backups. The drive dies and everything is gone.</p><p></p><p>With 10.8, for a bootable backup, have to recommend CarbonCopyCloner over SuperDuper (the one I use). CCC also creates the recovery partition. With either of them, you have a bootable backup - the internal drive dies, just connect the external and keep going until you get a replacement drive. Get the paid version and she'll have incremental backups - she just has to make the backups with some frequency.</p><p></p><p>If the external is large enough, you could partition it and keep both a TM and a CCC backup.</p><p>CCC - 1st choice; TM 2nd choice, not bootable, but does allow you to restore older file versions if that's ever needed (have never restored anything from my TM backups thus far - but I still do them).</p><p></p><p>Once you get a new external the partitioning/formatting will be done in Disk Utility - found in Applications - Utilities. Should be plenty of short tutorials via google.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1528319, member: 24160"] Probably not what you want to hear, but, as the "light of your life", do her a big humongous favor and spring another $60-$100 and get an external drive for backups. Backups on the same drive may as well not be backups. The drive dies and everything is gone. With 10.8, for a bootable backup, have to recommend CarbonCopyCloner over SuperDuper (the one I use). CCC also creates the recovery partition. With either of them, you have a bootable backup - the internal drive dies, just connect the external and keep going until you get a replacement drive. Get the paid version and she'll have incremental backups - she just has to make the backups with some frequency. If the external is large enough, you could partition it and keep both a TM and a CCC backup. CCC - 1st choice; TM 2nd choice, not bootable, but does allow you to restore older file versions if that's ever needed (have never restored anything from my TM backups thus far - but I still do them). Once you get a new external the partitioning/formatting will be done in Disk Utility - found in Applications - Utilities. Should be plenty of short tutorials via google. [/QUOTE]
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