my backup strategy...

[vzippa5]

I am planning to buy a 500GB laptop harddrive, put it in an enclosure, and use CarbonCopyCloner to make a bootable clone of my Mac's internal 500GB Drive.

This way, if there is a problem with my internal drive, I can just swap in the cloned drive and boot from that, never missing a step.

However, I am wondering if this is a good strategy. What if something else fails on my mac like the motherboard - would I be able to boot my cloned drive on another mac?

 

[charlesbronsen]

always a good idea to backup your stuff. Yes it will be bootable on a different mac providing its the same model.

 

[rowsdower]

I think it would likely be bootable even on a different model Mac.

 

[blodwyn]

I think it would likely be bootable even on a different model Mac.

Depends, A Snow Leopard boot disk wouldn't boot on a PowerPC system.