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How do you back-up your macbook?

I backup my MacBook using SuperDuper once a week. I back up my school stuff or other important files daily using Dropbox.

I have Time Machine setup on an external but because I have a notebook it's not really useful. I will probably use it more when I get a Time Capsule to make it a wireless feature.
 
cheapa55 said:
Found it! Thanks! now what does it do in terms of back up?
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It backs up your selection - home folder, applications, etc. to an external HD, to DVD/CD, or to your iDisk. You can select frequency of back ups, or do them manually.

If you install it and give it a try, the software is quite easy to figure out.
 
molala said:
It backs up your selection - home folder, applications, etc. to an external HD, to DVD/CD, or to your iDisk. You can select frequency of back ups, or do them manually.

If you install it and give it a try, the software is quite easy to figure out.
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Thanks! I will give it a try tonight.
 
Time Machine

Western Digital 500 GB USB external drive with Time Machine for regular back up.

But if I am migrating to a new machine, or rebuild my existing one, I always use Carbon Copy Cloner with another portable HDD.
 
I have a 750GB Lacie...which is a nice black with blue indicator light! Anyways to answer ur question...I only back-up what I need so I use the drag and drop method..I generally reformat (zero out my mac) every 3 months so it continues to run perfectly..and I move everything that I will still want for future over to my external hard drive before I do the reformatting.. I've never touched time machine as it seems like it would save a lot of stuff i could care less about keeping! I suggest drag and drop unless you really rack things up on ur system and don't plan on cleaning it up regularly.!
 
silverblack said:
Western Digital 500 GB USB external drive with Time Machine for regular back up.

But if I am migrating to a new machine, or rebuild my existing one, I always use Carbon Copy Cloner with another portable HDD.
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I like the idea! Thanks for tip!
 
b1u3b0y said:
I have a 750GB Lacie...which is a nice black with blue indicator light! Anyways to answer ur question...I only back-up what I need so I use the drag and drop method..I generally reformat (zero out my mac) every 3 months so it continues to run perfectly..and I move everything that I will still want for future over to my external hard drive before I do the reformatting.. I've never touched time machine as it seems like it would save a lot of stuff i could care less about keeping! I suggest drag and drop unless you really rack things up on ur system and don't plan on cleaning it up regularly.!
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what do you mean by this?
Do you have to then reinstall all your applications?? All your music?
 
I use a 16GB usb drive with Time Machine to backup my documents on my unibody MB, will probably buy a 2,5" external later to backup all my files later.
 
i use an Iomega 750GB hard drive that i partitioned 3 ways...

-my whole computer's backup... its about 160GBof the 750GB of space... i made a bootable clone of my internal hard drive with CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) just in case the internal gets fuct up... i can boot from that and/or restore, and it works perfectly.

-the other is for my movies, music, pics and other important files... the space is about 400GB or more. here i have all my movies(they dont fit in my computer... so i just use my EHD to watch the movies, or if im on the move i pass them to my IHD and watch them there)... my music is in my IHD, the backup and in this partition as well... just in case. im really OCD when it comes to my +30GB music library. my pics are the same... other files such as game's disk images, programs' disk images and other random stuff i need to get instead of downloading a program or its licenses i have them right here

-the rest is space for the ppl that still use windows in my house to back stuff up... and use it with parallels too... just in case.

CCC works great... its free, unlike superduper... which i tried and its pretty good as well but bout $30?! i prefer donating periodically when i have the money. =D thanks
 
Setup Timemachine, was going to use a 1TB drive from my old PC that was only used as storage but it won't spin up:mad: So I put in an old 180gb drive to run time machine back ups on. The TM backup is only about 50gb so I should be ok for a while on space. When disk space gets low does TM do any sort of auto pruning of really old back ups?
 
I use a custom built File server (RAID 5) 1TB so far but space for 5 more drives giving me 3.5TB and so far its cost me £220 and it is connected via gigabit ethernet and backs up Everything
 
I have been meaning to check out time machine and super duper properly, but so far I rely on two external hard drives onto which I periodically drop all my 'key' folders (documents, music, movies, pictures, library).

It aint sexy but it does the job :)
 
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