[curt.clifton]

abates17,

I concur with your thoughts on the backup warning messages. As always, use Help → Send Feedback to submit suggestions to get them entered in the development database. (See this sticky thread at the top of the forum for details.)

I also use external drives to backup, one at home and one at work with my MBP traveling between them. My strategy is to let OF backup to the local drive, then use SuperDuper to regularly and automatically clone the MBP drive to the external drive. I also have Time Machine backing up to another partition.

Cheers,

Curt