Clones done. One clone & one Time Machine drive goes to the Men's Shed with me for safe-keeping. The 2nd Time Machine backup will take longer, it's also 64 GB but is being done via USB 3 instead of Thunderbolt 1.
One Time Machine backup done, another commenced. Carbon Copy Cloner is cloning to another HD while SuperDuper! finishes the first clone. The SD clone is ejected when the app is closed.
Time Machine backup is really scooting along, 41 of 64 GB done with an estimated 12 minutes remaining. There's also SuperDuper! app doing a clone at the sane time.
The MBA is using 140 GB of its 512 GB SSD. The first Time Machine drive I attached to perform backups prior to installing Sierra wants to back up 64 GB of stuff. 10 GB completed now over Thunderbolt 1.
Copied 4.77 GB Sierra installer copied to external SSD from MBA over Thunderbolt 1 in under a minute. Now it's backup tine.
Started downloading Sierra: strangely it was NOT in the Updates secrion. It was in the Featured section.
@larand BA model, 2002 to mid 2005. Quite good cars when treated properly. That one's a bit tired.
Just finished some marinaded Tuscan-herbed feta cheese I bought 3 weeks ago. The remnants (oil, herbs &feta crumbs) will contribute to a marinade which I'm using for tomorrow's BBQ lunch. The 3rd Wed of every month is BBQ day at the Men's Shed. I can't eat the sausages that get cooked up for the rest of the lads, so I bring my own scotch or eye fillet steak, with toasted sourdough rye bread instead of the horrid white bread others can eat.
Actually I can eat those items but they don't stay down long: my lapband stomach rearrangement means stuff like sausages, sticky rice, soft white bread, watermelon pulp all sit in a big soggy mass on top of the oesophagus. And leads to a choking sensation. And violent , messy regurgitation.
Unpleasant and so unnecessary. So I bring about 80 grams of very fine steak & a slice of rye bread for toasting.