Backing up iPhoto, keychain and so on...

[sk3pt1c]

i'm gonna go Leopard next weekend and i want to back up my iPhoto library and keychain most of all.
i know that keychain can sync with .mac, but how would i get it back after i install Leopard, i just sync with .mac and it downloads the whole keychain and all is well?
does that work the same way with contacts and ical?

what about my Mail accounts?
i don't really care about deleting them, since every email is still up on the server and i'd just download them again, but it'd be nice if i could have the same state come back with just a .mac sync...

with iPhoto, do i copy the iPhoto Library thingy to my external and then put it back to the same folder under Leopard?

 

[sk3pt1c]

also, i just downloaded Backup 3 from .mac

what's the point of using that when you have Time Machine in Leopard?

or is it just for Tiger users?

 

[sk3pt1c]

ok, so i backed up my iLife files and personal settings including keychain using Backup 3 to my external firewire drive (the one that actually works, thank you HFS+)
Backup also backs up to .mac so i really don't see the point in using iSync anymore...
plus with time machine in leopard, some of backup's functionality is not needed...
from what i can see there have been some bad decisions there, as three functions overlap each other.
time machine backs files up to a drive, backup backs files and settings up to a drive and .mac, isync backs (less) files and settings to .mac ...
hmmm...
either way, i hope Backup can restore my stuff properly once i'm in Leopard...

 

[TheStu]

ok, so i backed up my iLife files and personal settings including keychain using Backup 3 to my external firewire drive (the one that actually works, thank you HFS+)
Backup also backs up to .mac so i really don't see the point in using iSync anymore...
plus with time machine in leopard, some of backup's functionality is not needed...
from what i can see there have been some bad decisions there, as three functions overlap each other.
time machine backs files up to a drive, backup backs files and settings up to a drive and .mac, isync backs (less) files and settings to .mac ...
hmmm...
either way, i hope Backup can restore my stuff properly once i'm in Leopard...

iSync isn't used for .Mac... hasn't been used that way for a while. It has since been more or less relegated to simply syncing data to a cell phone at this point (from what I can figure)

 

[sk3pt1c]

when i say iSync i don't mean the actual app, i mean syncing with .mac