Back up my entire macbook pro ?

[fab5freddy]

i am about to sell my MacBook Pro, and want to back up the entire computer.

IS it enough to copy the entire Harddrive to an external harddrive ?

or should i take some other precautions ?

cheers, FF

 

[teleromeo]

it's perhaps better to use a firewiredrive and make a bootable copy to it with carbon copy cloner or another backup program.
If you have programs on it like photoshop that need an activation don't forget to de-activate

 

[TimJim]

yeah if you use a program like superdooper you can just copy your whole HD which on a MBP shouldnt be under 100GB onto a firewire external HD.

why are you selling it?

 

[fab5freddy]

ok! can i use an external USB 2.0 hardrive to back up on ?

why does it have to be firewire ?

 

[MattJessop]

You don't need firewire. USB is perfectly acceptable for external HDDs. Firewire is just a lot faster and reliable than USB however, and was designed with external HDD and video editing in mind. It would back up your MBP a lot faster.

But USB 2.0 is perfectly fine (and cheaper usually) to back it up