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BACK UP MACBOOK?
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The first thing you can do is plug in an external hard drive, find the content you really really really can't do without and copy it to the external drive. One less thing to worry about.
Secondly you can look into CCC or alike (carbon copy cloner or something), these are free or paid apps that help you mirror the hard drive bit by bit, giving you a bootable clone.
Thirdly you can just pick specific things out of there I guess. And not make a clone, but just backup certain directories. Maybe those apps support that too.
Finally, you could run a time machine on that usb drive as well. And then on the new machine you can do 'migrate data from time-machine backup' to restore it.
Once you are confident you have a few copies of your data, maybe it's time to wipe the old macbook drive so when you return it your personal data isn't at risk of being leaked to the net.
Secondly you can look into CCC or alike (carbon copy cloner or something), these are free or paid apps that help you mirror the hard drive bit by bit, giving you a bootable clone.
Thirdly you can just pick specific things out of there I guess. And not make a clone, but just backup certain directories. Maybe those apps support that too.
Finally, you could run a time machine on that usb drive as well. And then on the new machine you can do 'migrate data from time-machine backup' to restore it.
Once you are confident you have a few copies of your data, maybe it's time to wipe the old macbook drive so when you return it your personal data isn't at risk of being leaked to the net.
Depending on how your company IT has your computer set up, CCC may not be a great idea. I would go with the suggestion to do a manual backup of all your data and application installers. You COULD do a TM backup and restore but that might also introduce some issues as it wants to create a new user account matching the old one.
Download CarbonCopyCloner.
CCC is FREE to download, and it's FREE to use for the first 30 days.
It will create a fully bootable cloned copy of your internal drive, which (when booted from) will look EXACTLY LIKE the source drive.
CCC is one of the best pieces of Mac software out there.
Give it a try...
CCC is FREE to download, and it's FREE to use for the first 30 days.
It will create a fully bootable cloned copy of your internal drive, which (when booted from) will look EXACTLY LIKE the source drive.
CCC is one of the best pieces of Mac software out there.
Give it a try...
I'm another recommender of Carbon Copy, a most excellent utility. Unless the firm just wants you to copy your files onto a USB drive?