Backing up a Mac + PC?

Matt · 30 Mar 2007 at 20:38

My parents have a PC and a Mac, and they really need to back them up as they contain business files and that's quite important

What would be the easiest way to achieve this? Bare in mind that it needs to be really simple, the Mac is a Mac Mini. Both machines have CDRWs, NOT DVD RW's. Both machines have 40gb HDDs.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

zetec452 · 30 Mar 2007 at 21:55

You could buy a USB hard disk for them and backup both machines to the Hard disk along with using the CD RW to make a monthly copy.

See my Mac backup thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17710991

Deleted member 329 · 30 Mar 2007 at 22:51

yeah i have a usb drive have partitioned half for mac and half ntfs...

i couldnt use fat cos i was backing up files over 4 gig

its works tho

M0KUJ1N · 30 Mar 2007 at 23:00

NAS device with RAID 1 and frequent backup to another external disk/dvd/tape? Should be sufficient redundancy for a home office

Rambaud · 31 Mar 2007 at 09:21

All my external hard drives are now HFS+, and I use MacDrive 7 on my PC.

I have an external DVD burner (inc DVD-RAM format) for use with my MacBook.

Data is backed up to DVD-RAM (FAT32 & 12x speed) several times a day, and DVD+RW (8x speed) discs on a daily basis (a separate dsic for each day).

Plus DVD-R/+R on a weekly basis.

Backing up a Mac + PC?

Deleted member 329

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