From psimpson_1 at msn.com Fri Dec 7 15:28:24 2007 From: psimpson_1 at msn.com (Paul Simpson) Date: Fri Dec 7 15:28:32 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive backup Message-ID: First, let me thank you all for the help you've given me so far. I just inherited a 400mhz Power PC with a MAC OS X Panther Ver 10.3.9 Operating System and am attempting to back it up so that I can completely recover everything if needed - that includes the Op Sys, all applications, files, settings, etc. I need to do this because I have no access to any of the Op Sys, programs, settings, etc. because the person who we inherited it from is gone. Also, I know nothing about the MAC but have worked in data processing all my life with responsibility for large data centers running large mainframes and Windows PC networks - during my last 20 years in management prior to retirement. As of now I have purchased an Seagate external hard drive which is advertised as being MAC compatable. I have erased its NTFS format and reformatted it to MAC OS Extended Journaled and am now ready to back up. Based on prior questions to the group it appears that SuperDuper will meet my needs. BUT based on my experience backing up Windows PCs, I'm wondering if there is anything else I need to do other then to simply backup the MAC hard drive to the external? For example, should I create a "Boot disc" and, if so, how do I create it? And once backed up when the MAC hard drive fails, will recovery simply be a reload to the replacement drive and will the recovery bring me right back to where I was before the failure? Since I haven't attempted to aquire SuperDuper yet possibly their instructions will answer all those questions but I thought I'd bounce them off you all before I commited. Again, any help will be appreciated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-newbies/attachments/20071207/0e44d3c7/attachment.html From randy at macattorney.com Fri Dec 7 16:30:05 2007 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Fri Dec 7 16:30:12 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive backup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <76DA79EB-6DCE-4D14-8722-0C8A30B8C826@macattorney.com> On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Paul Simpson wrote: > Again, any help will be appreciated. In the Bombich Forums is a very helpful thread on how to properly prepare your external HD before cloning to it so that it will be bootable: http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=4084 Beyond that, all that you need is SuperDuper, if that is your backup program of choice. (And it is an excellent choice.) In the event of a misfortune, you can just startup from the backup and use it like you would have the original disk. You can also clone the backup disk to a new disk using SuperDuper. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From web2005 at messyoptics.com Fri Dec 7 22:01:14 2007 From: web2005 at messyoptics.com (Carter Tomassi) Date: Fri Dec 7 22:01:31 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive backup In-Reply-To: <76DA79EB-6DCE-4D14-8722-0C8A30B8C826@macattorney.com> References: <76DA79EB-6DCE-4D14-8722-0C8A30B8C826@macattorney.com> Message-ID: <66EFF056-F359-4D2D-AA20-73BBCA7577D7@messyoptics.com> If I may suggest one thing, name the back-up the exact same name as the drive you are backing up. I used SuperDuper to create a new main drive and ran into a few issues because I missed that little instruction. Carter On Dec 7, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Paul Simpson wrote: > >> Again, any help will be appreciated. > > In the Bombich Forums is a very helpful thread on how to properly > prepare your external HD before cloning to it so that it will be > bootable: > http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=4084 > > Beyond that, all that you need is SuperDuper, if that is your > backup program of choice. (And it is an excellent choice.) > > In the event of a misfortune, you can just startup from the backup > and use it like you would have the original disk. You can also > clone the backup disk to a new disk using SuperDuper.