Sunday, October 11, 2009
Worked on Danny's website: new promo, laser treatment health and safety, sent proposed pages to Drew for review. Lunch: leftovers. Napped. Dinner at psychobauble and Nate's with psychobauble, Nate, Patrick, Romy, Danny, Drew, Phil, Paul. Nate cooked chili, Patrick cooked sage cornbread, Paul brought a circust-tent-shaped German chocolate cake from DeLessio Market and Bakery. Home. Stopped using Time Machine on Patrick's iMac and instead set up Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3. I'm still using Time Machine on my iMac, but I've had so many problems with Time Machine that I'm certain that it will fail again within the next year. Usually I can fix whatever the problem is, but it's not worth that much of my time. I used to think that Time Machine was elegant and beautifully designed, but if you have to restart the Airport Extreme once every few days then that's really not insanely great design. Our setup is a 1.5 TB drive connected to our Airport Extreme. I think if your backup hard drive is directly connected to your Mac then you're probably going to have a more reliable time with it. With all the time I've spent trying to deal with Time Machine problems, if I could know for certain that directly connected disks would give no problems then I would not hesitate to spend another $120 on another 1.5 TB drive.