[G4] CD back-up

[Mel]

For backups, the best thing I've found is Retrospect from Dantz 
(www.dantz.com). Retrospect Express for Mac is only $49 and it's saved 
me many, many times that in pain and suffering. Retrospect won't make 
bootable sets, but it will use compression to make your set smaller. 
Get a stack of CD-Rs or -RWs (my backup of everything including my 
iTunes library ran over 20 CDs) and go after it. It will seem a little 
tedious, but if your disk ever fails or you accidently delete your 
Quicken file, or wish you could revert to a file you had yesterday 
before you changed it today, it will be well worth it.
Backing up to an external HD is an option, but one of the primary 
reasons for backing up is to have it on more durable media than a hard 
drive. Also, just dragging an OS X partition to another drive and 
copying it will NOT make a bootable copy like OS 9 did. There is a 
utility that I have not used called Carbon Copy Cloner that will do 
that that I have read positive reports on.
Get Retrospect, get backed up, you will someday be glad you did.
Mel

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 05:08 AM, wappling wrote:

> Hi all,I am new to this machine and OSX jaguar,right now everything is
> working and setup up very well,so before I screw-up.. and I will,, I 
> want
> advice how best to copy my hard disk,I have a combo drive and two 
> blank CD-r
> disks,but the jaguar upgrade alone was two CD's so my question is can 
> I copy
> it all as a bootable set If I buy enough disks?? Or am I better of to 
> get a
> external hardrive houseing for one of the drives from my old machine?? 
> I
> really dont know what Im doing LOL... but Im doing it real well so far.
> thankyou so far
>
>
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