Article:		Automated Backups with Existing Tools
Subject:		Why Not Ditto?
Date:		2004-02-10 22:03:01
From:		datasetgo
I just posted a brief how-to for backups using ditto rather than ASR and hdiutil. From what I understand, CarbonCopyCloner uses ditto for its backup routines. Plus, it's a one-line script - much easier to implement. Go to my site, DataSetGo to check it out.

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• Why Not Ditto?
  2004-02-11 08:27:24  sharumpe [Reply | View]
  
  
  The reason is that the intent was to copy to a dynamically created disk image, not to another disk as a whole. You could probably do the same thing using ditto instead of asr, though since ASR is built for cloning drives, whereas ditto is built for copying files (similar but distinct), ASR may offer benefits over ditto. (I don't know that for sure)
  
  Mr. Sharumpe