Best Way to Backup data?

[TSE]

I just got a 500 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive.

What is the best way to backup my data with Snow Leopard? That includes my Parallels stuff, and my Boot camp partition?

 

[Watabou]

Time machine of course.

Just go to system preferences and choose the HD to be used as a time machine hd and it will start to backup automatically.

 

[waynep]

The easiest thing to do is use Time Machine with your USB drive. I did that until I bought a Time Capsule. Now I point Time Machine to the Time Capsule.

I do the following:
1) Time Machine to Time Capsule
2) Carbon Copy Cloner to a USE drive to give me a bootable option
3) Mozy for data only, for offsite storage

wayne

 

[r0k]

I have had Time Machine let me down when backing up via 802.11g. It has worked fine over ethernet, firewire or usb. I now use Time machine and crashplan. I have also used carbon copy cloner when upgrading to a new HDD.