Hey guys, I have an iMac G5 that needs servicing so we are hauling it into the Mall of America Apple Store on Sunday. We have a 500 GB external firewire harddrive that we will backup the data to. How do I go about doing this? Thanks!
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How to backup data
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Clone your entire internal drive to the external drive with Carbon Copy Cloner: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html or SuperDuper: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Both will make a bootable copy of your entire drive. CCC is totally free while SuperDuper will make bootable copies for free also. Additional features are unlocked when your purchase SD.
Both will make a bootable copy of your entire drive. CCC is totally free while SuperDuper will make bootable copies for free also. Additional features are unlocked when your purchase SD.
As I understand it, dragging and dropping an entire boot drive will mostly make a copy of your drive, but not entirely. The copy won't actually be bootable. If you want to make a full copy of a boot drive, follow kfordham281's advice, use ccc or superduper.
Thanks guys! God bless you and have a wonderful holiday season! Going to go Christmas shopping with my dad tomorrow at the mall afterwards!