I'm upgrading my mac to snow leopard but I don't really have a external hard drive to back up my data or the software to do the backup. Is it safe to do an upgrade without backing up? Any help?
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Do I need to backup my iMac before Snow Leopard Installation?
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Yes, you should always backup before installing a new OS.
External hard drives are cheap and time machine is good.
Take this as an opportunity to be backing up your computer with time machine as you should have been doing before.
External hard drives are cheap and time machine is good.
Take this as an opportunity to be backing up your computer with time machine as you should have been doing before.
So i can use time machine software to back up to let's say a western digital hard drive?
well let me ask you this,
what happens if the system "burps" crashes or otherwise fails, where would your data be?
You always should have a backup, regardless of what you'll be doing. With Leopard, apple made it incredibly easy to have a backup. Plus tools like CCC make creating a cloned disk so easy that it would be foolish to do an upgrade without a backup
what happens if the system "burps" crashes or otherwise fails, where would your data be?
You always should have a backup, regardless of what you'll be doing. With Leopard, apple made it incredibly easy to have a backup. Plus tools like CCC make creating a cloned disk so easy that it would be foolish to do an upgrade without a backup