Just got a sleek portable 160 GB WD HD, and it's only USB 2.0 . I also have a purchased version of Superduper. What is the best way to back up my MBP using this USB HD? I know you can make backups bootable, but I believe that's only using a Firewire HD... is that correct? Thanks!
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Superduper and USB???
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it's simple: you can MAKE backups on that driver, but you can't boot from them. Whenever I have a problem with my OS, I normally tend to boot into my backup and then "backup the backup" baxck to my harddrive. I dont know if superduper has its own restore function cause I never tried, but you would need to use that.
Obviously you could always start the Mac OS X install disc and use Disc Utility to restore the backup to you harddisk.
Obviously you could always start the Mac OS X install disc and use Disc Utility to restore the backup to you harddisk.
i believe with the transition to Intel chips that USB 2.0 is now bootable with the Intel macs. but i could be wrong...
okay cool. So ill make a back up and save it to the HD. If my HD blows up and I get a new one, I would then boot up with the OS X disk, then restore the HD using the back up copy on the external?( using disk utility or superduper ). No problems?
Yes you can.
For fun today, I just set up my 4GB Thumb Drive so that my iMac can boot from it. Works pretty well.
BTW, if you are booting to an Intel Mac, you must make a GUID partition to boot from.
I have SuperDuper and a USB External and this site helped me a bit when trying to learn how to back up.
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/09/7664/
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/09/7664/