[X-Newbies] Hard Drive backup

[Carter Tomassi]

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.