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MrMacMan
Feb 24, 2004, 09:59 PM
My friend who is a recent mac switcher wants to backup mutiple hard drives with in one stoage drive(the backup).

I've never backed up my own hard-drive so I don't even know which dirrection to point him in.

If you can reccomend a certain software that would be great.


Sparky's
Feb 25, 2004, 11:29 AM
Try Dantz's "Retrospect" I think it is almost a standard in the printing trade. You can back up any or all mounted disk images from the main computer.
photohead
Feb 25, 2004, 12:03 PM
you can partition the backup hardrive and use carbon copy cloner...thats what I do...works really good and its free.

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Sweetfeld28
Feb 25, 2004, 03:44 PM
i would suggest Carbon Copy Cloner, like Photohead said. I have used it to copy my OS X.3 drive, on to my portable 40G FireWire Drive. This lets me take my HD anywhere; and plug it in and boot from it having all of my stuff with me.

Anyway, the program worked great for me.
Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html)
MrMacMan
Feb 25, 2004, 05:38 PM
Thanks guys.


If Carbon Copy Cloner is the product for him, then I will link him to it...


I really have no way of testing if thats the product for him or not, so I will go on your advice.
MrMacMan
Feb 29, 2004, 07:00 PM
New problem...

He didn't mention this large fact...


It has to be Os 9


Yeah he is quite a newbie for not telling me... arg...

So I need a new product... :(
Billicus
Feb 29, 2004, 08:32 PM
New problem...

He didn't mention this large fact...


It has to be Os 9


Yeah he is quite a newbie for not telling me... arg...

So I need a new product... :(

If it's OS 9, what's wrong with drag & drop???
MrMacMan
Mar 3, 2004, 05:14 PM
If it's OS 9, what's wrong with drag & drop???

Um...

something a little bit more... easy...

Dragging your disk over to backup is not an option... :o
Calliander
Mar 3, 2004, 07:40 PM
Um...

something a little bit more... easy...

Dragging your disk over to backup is not an option... :o

So it's a tape backup then? Retrospect is the way to go.
rdowns
Mar 3, 2004, 08:02 PM
I've never backed up my own hard-drive


shudder
MrMacMan
Mar 4, 2004, 09:55 PM
shudder
Thanks for not contributing to this discussion. I don't need to.


He has a firewire hard drive...

He has Multiple Macs he needs to backup (he doesn't want to erase one backup with a backup of another drive.

Retrospect the way to go?
Sparky's
Mar 7, 2004, 08:15 PM
I use retrospect at work to back up 3 MACs (OSX & 9.2.2) and 2 PCs (WIN 2K) all from the same HD. as long as file sharing is on the remote drives and I can mount them the the HD I can back-up all them at once. I use a LaCie 2DVD-R CD-R that is a 48x external Firewire machine and can backup about 10gbs of data in less than 2 hrs. (with software compression)
version 5.1 is OSX compatible.