What application do you use to back up?

[Caitlyn]

What application for you use to back up your important information/files on your Mac? I was thinking about just using Roxio Toast and dragging and dropping the files onto a new project and then burning it to a CD or DVD.

 

[WildCowboy]

I'm a simple man...I just do periodic home folder backups to DVD. I just drag my stuff to a new burn folder and burn from Finder.

Some day I'll get an external drive...one of these days, one of these days...

 

[G99]

I've heard iBackup is good.
It copies everything, so you can actually use the data of the target disk to do stuff.
Try searching for it.

 

[amacgenius]

Backup, backup, backup.

I use Apple's Backup to backup to my external hardrive.

 

[Benjamindaines]

I use Déjà Vu

 

[munkle]

SuperDuper. Others need not apply.

 

[dcv]

SuperDuper. Others need not apply.

I second that!

 

[peterparker]

ChronoSync

 

[quigleybc]

For just normal back ups of files, and music/movies I use Toast.

But for a home folder, boot backup, superduper, or apple's back up

 

[iGary]

Super Duper is Super Duper.

 

[Caitlyn]

I didn't even release the capability of Déjà Vu until about two seconds ago. It came with Toast 6. Awesome. I just set up a scheduled back up each month. That was easy.

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

I use Apple's Backup to backup to my external hardrive.

Ditto.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Dantz Retrospect: not for the faint-hearted

 

[Benjamindaines]

I use Apple's Backup to backup to my external hardrive.

I used to use that but it was slow as anything to restore anything so I switched to Déjà Vu

 

[hayduke]

Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner

Easy to use. Free. Bootable back-ups.

 

[Heb1228]

In the future, a search like this one: https://forums.macrumors.com/search/?searchid=3556944 will give you the exact same answers since this question is usually covered about 3 times a day.

I use SuperDuper.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Since no-one has mentioned it yet: LaCie SilverKeeper is really ugly, but seems to do the job very well... and you cannot beat the price, either...