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Old 12-07-2004, 10:08 AM
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It's harder to make a mistake than you might think: SuperDuper! won't let you set the boot drive as a destination.

You don't have to always have the drive named the same as the source drive, Bud. You only have to do this when you're going to boot from it. When it's just sitting there as a backup target, it doesn't matter.

It also doesn't matter if you're going to boot from it when the other, original drive isn't present, since the aliases involved will re-resolve to their new targets.

The problem occurs when the alias can resolve to a file that already exists in its original location -- namely, the original drive. In that case, aliases end up referring to the original: the path of least resistance.

By naming your drive Macintosh HD (or whatever your original was), the aliases do the least work possible: namely, they just resolve to their new, cloned location rather than the original.

Remember: if you want to call the drive "Backup" (or whatever), that's no problem, but (this seems to be only under Jaguar) you should probably restore using the Jaguar boot disk, rather than booting from the clone (unless you rename the clone to the original drive name before you boot from it).

Hope that helps...
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