Best Way to Backup data?

TSE

macrumors 601

Original poster

• Sep 18, 2011

• #1

I just got a 500 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive.

What is the best way to backup my data with Snow Leopard? That includes my Parallels stuff, and my Boot camp partition?

 

Watabou

macrumors 68040

• Sep 18, 2011

• #2

Time machine of course.

Just go to system preferences and choose the HD to be used as a time machine hd and it will start to backup automatically.

 

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waynep

macrumors 6502

• Sep 18, 2011

• #3

The easiest thing to do is use Time Machine with your USB drive. I did that until I bought a Time Capsule. Now I point Time Machine to the Time Capsule.

I do the following:
1) Time Machine to Time Capsule
2) Carbon Copy Cloner to a USE drive to give me a bootable option
3) Mozy for data only, for offsite storage

wayne

 

r0k

macrumors 68040

• Sep 18, 2011

• #4

I have had Time Machine let me down when backing up via 802.11g. It has worked fine over ethernet, firewire or usb. I now use Time machine and crashplan. I have also used carbon copy cloner when upgrading to a new HDD.