Disk Utilities would do the trick, until your hard drive got too big for the partition you'd have to create. Dantz Retrospect is what I use. --Joe! On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:13 AM, Luypaert, Johan (Johan) wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a solution to backup the data on my iBook data onto an > external LaCie firewire disk. > > I would like to accomplish two things: > 1) I want an encrypted backup of my complete home directory on the > external disk > 2) I would like to use the remaining space for less important stuff. > (Things already on cdrom / dvd.) > > Silverkeeper 1.1 was included with the LaCie external HD, and has the > functionality I want to have. It allows me to compare / check and > synchronize the files on my internal HD and and the external HD. But > there's no option to encrypt ... :( > > What are you guys using for encrypted backups on an external disk? > > Thanks in advance, > > Johan. > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > ____________________________________ World of joereform! at http://homepage.mac.com/joereform