I have an intel imac 17" and I am wondering what is the best way to backup all my harddrive? I have an external HD, is there a program that will look at my HD and compress it to the external drive? Is there anything on OSX that does this, or do I have to buy a program...
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Best back up program?
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Well, for donationware and shareware, there's Carbon Copy CLoner, and SuperDuper!. No compression there though..
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That is correct (in essence*).. it will erase the target driver first, so I suggest partitioning it if you don't want to waste space.
Not a bit for bit, but file for file, hierarchicly.
Not a bit for bit, but file for file, hierarchicly.
tar.. sort of. and then gzip.
Off the top of my head I cannot think of any backup utils that compress on the fly that don't cost $$$$. If you need to do that, check out Retrospect from Dantz as a starting place.
Off the top of my head I cannot think of any backup utils that compress on the fly that don't cost $$$$. If you need to do that, check out Retrospect from Dantz as a starting place.
SuperDuper allows you to output to a disk image file, I think it allows for a compressed dmg file as well.
EDIT: I just checked and it does give you the option of making a compressed .dmg
EDIT: I just checked and it does give you the option of making a compressed .dmg
I wouldn't want to try and compress (post disk imaging) something as large as 30+GB. But that's just me.
Yeah, I do remember trying it one time and it took about 5 or 6 times as long, plus I don't know if you have the option of Smart Updates (which only comes with the paid version anyway).yellow said: