[Macpartners] Help with Carbon Copy Cloner

[David Schloerb]

Hi,

I have a new G4 desktop power mac running OS 10.2.8 with two internal hard
disks. I would like to set it up so that the second drive is an identical
back up of the startup drive and I am looking into using Carbon Copy Cloner
for this purpose.  CCC (v2.2) with psync installed did create a bootable
clone of my startup drive on the second drive, but the icon
arrangements/view options for all of the folders changed.


My questions are as follows:

1) Do I just need to live with the view being different or is there some
way to copy the folders exactly?

2) If it isn't possible to copy everything to the clone, what other
information gets lost in the process? Application preferences? Browser
bookmarks? Why isn't it possible to make an exact copy?

3) Can anybody suggest a better way to do this type of routine backup?


The MIT computer help desk tells me that CCC should work the way I want it
to, but they can't help me (except to suggest posting my questions to this
list) because they don't support CCC. At their suggestion, I already posted
a similar message to the Bombich troubleshooting site on 10/14/03. Over 150
people have looked at that so far, but no one has responded.

Please help!

David