Back-Up Questions

[Regular-John]

I want to somehow [maybe with Automator] back up certain folders [docs, music, vids, etc]on my HD to my external HD on a daily basis and have it done automatically.

I've had a play around with Automator, but it kinda confuses me [I'm fairly new to OSX]!

Any ideas?

Also, I tend to format my HD regularly [well I did with my PC]. Is there any way to back up all my iCal events, address book and e-mails + folders? Not necessarily automatically though.

Cheers RJ.

 

[robbieduncan]

Use SuperDuper (or CarbonCopyCloner)?

 

[Regular-John]

Cheers for that.

I've used CCC to back up the 'users' folder. Does that cover all my ical event, addresses, e-mails, etc??

Cheers

 

[jelloshotsrule]

yeah, your user folder contains all that stuff in there, or at least it should!

 

[iEdd]

Cheers for that.

I've used CCC to back up the 'users' folder. Does that cover all my ical event, addresses, e-mails, etc??

Cheers

Yeah, but if your external drive is big enough, you should just backup your whole mac hd, then it's bootable

 

[Regular-John]

Hey, just noticed that you can create disk images with the disk utility.

Does this back everything up? If so, then I guess this is like OS-X's version of system restore.

Then could I make Automator scheldule the back-up?

Cheers.

 

[robbieduncan]

A disk image is just a special kind of file that can be mounted as a disk. It lets you do things like master CDs in non-native formats. It does not take an image of any existing disk. You could script up the creation of a disk image, the copying of all the files you want backed up then burning that image to a DVD.

Edit to add: Just to be clear a disk image is not a backup. It's nothing like a backup. It's not System Restore.