[X-Newbies] Hard Drive Backup Questions

[Thomas McDermott Jr]

Good evening,
    Just curious about creating backups as mentioned below.  If I
"clone" my macbook drive onto an external drive will it preserve my
Itunes playlists and ratings or would those have to be recreated?

Thanks

Tom


Al Poulin wrote:
>
> Hello Paul:
>
> Keeping things as simple as possible, you could just drag/copy your 
> selected files to the external drive.  For this it does not matter 
> which format you use.  If you keep all your data in the Documents 
> Folder, I would drag/copy that in one hunk.  But you need to know that 
> you have no application which keeps its data within its own folder.
>
> Assuming that your G3 has its original, relatively small hard drive, 
> by today's standards, and that your external drive hooks up via 
> Firewire and is of generous size, I recommend you aim to make it a 
> bootable drive.  That is you would be able to start up your machine 
> from the external drive, handy when you old, internal one breaks.  For 
> this, it is best to use the Journaled option which keeps track of your 
> most recent changes in case of power out or other failure.  Also, this 
> means using either Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) which is free for a 
> donation, or SuperDuper which has a nominal cost.  Either one gives 
> excellent service, but some people consider that SuperDuper is easier 
> to use and more flexible in its features.  Once you've set up your 
> external drive this way and you can start up from it and work your 
> data as usual, that gives you an excellent opportunity to give your 
> internal drive some fresh legs with a reformat of its own, journaled, 
> or course.  Then you can use your back up software to load it from 
> your external drive with your system and data.  This process 
> identifies and bypasses bad spots that inevitably develop on hard 
> drive platters.
>
> Al Poulin
>
>
>
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