Have you looked into Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html)? On 18 Oct, 2004, at 2:27, Keith Parker wrote: > Hey Listers, > > I been lurking for years, but now I have a question. > > I just assembled an external 80 GB firewire hard drive, it works > great, but with all of this newfound real-estate I'm not sure just how > to configure it. > > I'd like an exact duplicate of my internal 30 GB drive, and I'd like > to keep the ability to take this drive to another Mac and use it as an > emergency back-up. I have Retrospect Express, but I'm not sure if it > changes the file formats or not. > > How do you simply synchronize the 2 drives daily, preferably at night, > I sleep the iBook when not in use. Only a little data changes daily, > but it's very important to me. I just want to have the same settings, > bookmarks, email etc. > > TIA everyone 8-) > > Parkerdude