In yet another example of how Mac users don't know Unix, I keep reading about how great SuperDuper is and how everyone should use it in addition to TimeMachine. Here it is:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
It makes bootable backups of your HD. And if you pay $28, you can automatically schedule the backups to happen. And after the first backup, it only copies the changes.
Or, you could put this in your crontab:
0 5 * * * rsync -vaxE --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/BackupDrive/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that does everything SuperDuper does as long as you setup BackupDrive to be bootable when you format/partition it.
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Seems like the big perk SuperDuper gives you is a bootable backup which seems like a bad idea if it's bootable r/w. How would you back that up?
CarbonCopyCloner is a nice free util as well.
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