backing up to an external hard drive

[pammy]

Hi,

I recently bought an external hard drive 3.5 HDD Enclosure (80 GB) and want to back up mac mini (80 GB) with 29.82 GB used.
What I am doing: Command and clicking on hard drive and dragging to the external hard drive. Starts copying. Asks for permission, and then sets on its' course. Check on it next day and it says cannot copy documents and the hard drive is only 12 GB used.
Not copying completely. I am copying under my profile and not the administrator. Is that a possible reason for partial back up?
Should I be dragging the hard drive from a certain path? I am using the icon on my desktop and the info says it is "volume" as in not an alias.
Your feedback appreciated.

Pammy.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Use something free like Silverkeeper to do the whole lot for you on a schedule. Easy-peasy.

http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/

 

[pammy]

Thanks. I have installed the program and read through the instructions. I will give it a go tonight and let you know.

 

[Maxiseller]

Carbon Copy Cloner is another good tool.

I just get my drives to backup some time in the middle of the night - that way when I wake up refreshed I know that I've got two copies of my work.

It might be worth burning the most important files to CD too - this way you can be nearly positive you will never loose work.

 

[yellow]

SuperDuper! is yet another one..

 

[pianoman]

yellow - i love your avatar. it's like cletus is telling me how to back up my hard drive. very funny.

 

[Manzana]

i second superduper!

what i like is that with the free version you can:

set origin and target
repair permissions
erase and prepare target
copy users or entire disk
make bootable
put computer to sleep

all at once in one neat workflow. very nifty, i'm actually thinking about purchasing it to access the locked features.

i used to use silverkeeper but it's a bit clunkier to use though it gets the job done.

 

[yellow]

it's like cletus is telling me how to back up my hard drive.

Ya take that thar externy driveum critter, hooks it up to your presdadigitation device, runs yourself some cloney-type thingamajiggy..

 

[quigleybc]

Another Vote for SuperDuper.

What up in Van!!

good to see more Vancouverites on here!