Backing up my Mac

samtheman_2

Just moved to mac and am looking to find out how to back up my mac. Big thanks in advance.

Sam

patwa_2

I don't own a Mac and there may be a better way to do this but maybe this may point you in the right direction:

http://www.digital501.com/2006021110/mac-backup-osx/

patflanel

It is fairly straight forward. I use an external firewire drive and Carbon copy cloner (it's free). There are other programs, shareware etc best of which seems to be SupeDuper but you have to pay. You can use USB drives as well but only Intel macs will boot from USB if you need that. Hope this helps.

mrscruffy

I run a shell script from the command line. Please ignore the rest of this message if you are of a less than techy disposition.

Just save a text file (use TextEdit) called backup.sh to your home directory with the single line (making changes where necessary):

rsync -a /Users/yourUsername/Documents /Volumes/destinationDriveName

The open a terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type ./backup.sh
This will use the program rsync to sync the contents of the directories specified in the text file to your external drive. Next time you run the backup.sh it will only update those files which have changed.

See http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ for more info and more advanced options.

moomintroll_3

I use an external HD and SuperDuper! which is excellent.

Moneymaker

I use Chronosync and an external Firewire Seagate drive.

kinesin_2

Get an external USB hard drive and use superduper to cl;one your disk

Assuming you've got a Intel mac (which you will unless you've gone second hand) you will be able to boot of the external drive by pressing option during power on if you ever lose the main HDD