Best way to back up FileVaulted HDD?

[asherman13]

I have FileVault enabled on my MBP and I want to disable it, but first I want to back up just in case something goes awry. What's the best way to back everything up?

Carbon Copy Cloner? Super Duper? Apple's Backup? What do you think?

Thanks!

 

[asherman13]

Anybody? Anybody at all?

 

[nplima]

How about copying from your protected /home directory to /users/shared, and from there to a new user?

 

[Maxiseller]

Your only way of doing an entirely secure backup is to backup to a second disk - if you have one, Carbon Copy Cloner is absolutly fine and I've used it and works well.

Other than that, you could burn your important files to a DVD so that you don't loose anything and from there restore everything gradually, but this is lenghty process so it really helps if you have an external volume.

In general, I mirror both my internal hard drives to external drives and then copy all my important files to two sets of DVDs and keep one at home, and one at a friends house.

 

[asherman13]

Your only way of doing an entirely secure backup is to backup to a second disk - if you have one, Carbon Copy Cloner is absolutly fine and I've used it and works well.

Other than that, you could burn your important files to a DVD so that you don't loose anything and from there restore everything gradually, but this is lenghty process so it really helps if you have an external volume.

In general, I mirror both my internal hard drives to external drives and then copy all my important files to two sets of DVDs and keep one at home, and one at a friends house.

I'm not worried about losing my entire HDD, simply the user stuff...I think.