Partitioning and backing up without Time Machine

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  1. Gokunama, May 13, 2011

    Gokunama macrumors 6502a

    Gokunama

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    Hi, I simply want to make a back up to an external drive of photos, pics, music, movies, etc but I don't want to use Time Machine. I'd like to just back up these files so I can reinstall them on either a Mac or Windows if I needed to.

    2 Parts here:

    1.I'm just trying to figure out how to simply back up the following.

    Photo library (does that include home videos as well?
    Music
    Ringtones
    ebooks
    Documents
    Movies and Music videos already in iTunes
    Bookmarks

    I'm also wondering if I can back up my non Mac App Store apps as well.

    2. I want to partition my external hard drive and format the 2nd partition to use both on Mac and Windows.

    Format options in Disk Utility as follows:
    Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
    Mac OS Extended
    Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
    Mac Os Extended (Case-sensitive)
    MS-DOS (FAT)
    exFAT
    Free Space

    Any help would be appreciated!
     
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  2. Dave Braine, May 13, 2011

    Dave Braine macrumors 68040

    Dave Braine

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    Why not use Carbon Copy Cloner(free) or Super Duper(not free) to make a clone of your Mac. That way it will backup everything, and be bootable in the event of an internal drive failure.

    The clone will require a partition using Mac OS Extended(most use Journaled) and if you want to use it on a Windows PC, that will need to be MS-DOS/FAT 32.
     
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