Carbon Copy Cloner over network!

I just had what I think is a cool result from an experiment. Carbon
Copy Cloner will only let you use local drives, either real or mounted
disk images, so that would mean, I thought, that a backup drive would
have to be physically connected, in turn, to each machine I want to
back up to it from. I first did verify the "local only" part by
creating a disk image on the other machine on my home network, mounting
the image on that machine, and then connecting to that volume. CCC
wouldn't let me touch it, even though I could open it with the finder.
But then I created a disk image (.dmg) on the other machine in a
directory (desktop) I could access from this machine (it shows up when
you open up the desktop folder.) I then *mounted* that image on this
machine by double-clicking on it -- my first surprise was that actually
worked! CCC was perfectly happy using that as the target of a clone
(only one small folder as a test) and sure enough when I went to the
other machine and mounted the image there the folder and file inside it
had indeed been transferred -- correct dates and all. Now if I were to
completely clone one system to such a disk image on the other I'm
pretty sure the resulting image wouldn't be bootable -- but I'll bet it
could be used to make a partition that would be.

OK, here's the 64$ question -- does psync work under Tiger? Its
website and CCC's website only talk about Panther.

Ted Lee
Minnetonka, MN

 

yes - works over here. (10.4.4)

Marc

 

Thanks for reporting that. It's the sort of thing I was a little
leery of testing on my own without knowing a lot more about how all the
moving parts fit together than I do! (I read the man pages for rsync,
for instance, and can just see myself really screwing something up by
giving the wrong options and parameters.)

Ted Lee
Minnetonka, MN