how do you guys back up your stuff on osx

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 16:17

just got myself a mybook pro 250gb disk to use with the Macbook Pro. Do you guys just back up your essential files or can you do a full system backup which you could restore at a later date if required? I have bootcamp installed too so im not sure if that makes things more messy or not.

Any recommended apps out there to help me organise my backups?

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 16:24

thanks for that. Is that something similar to acronis true image for windows? Takes a full system image and saves it to a different disk? Are there any built in utilities in osx for full backups?

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 16:35

sounds good - will deffo give it a blast and see how i get on. When i had to repartition my mybook pro it gave me an option to format to make it compatible with os9 as a bootable drive but it didnt mention osx so i unticked it. Thanks for your help.

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 16:58

cheers guys

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:14

how long does it take you guys to do a full disk backup? Im currently backing up my 100gb mac osx partition (another 10gb is windows) and the effective copy speed is 3.8Mb/s I'm using a firewire external disk and I kind of expeected things to go a little faster! Maybe its just taking longer as it is the first full backup I have done.

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:57

FirebarUK said:
Over Firewire 800 I get around 20MB/s.

was it the same backing up for the first time? I take it you use the smart backup now so that it just syncs the internal hd with the external? It's a nice little app.

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:11

only other thing i was wondering about is my bootcamp partition. how can i back this up and how could i restore it again along with a mac partition?

ringo747 · 8 Feb 2007 at 01:45

just a quick question for any super duper users. I have a 250gb mybook pro drive that i use for backing up with super duper. I have just been using the erase and copy settings. Is it possible to have the Macbook HD backup to and erase a folder within the external drive or will it erase all the external drive and then begin the copy. At the moment only 40gb is used and i want to use other parts of the disk for backups from other machines. Any ideas what I should do?

ringo747 · 8 Feb 2007 at 10:22

thanx for the link, however, I was referring more to osx backups rather than my bootcamp partition. Crearing a bootable image of my Mac HD takes up only about 40gb. I want to use the rest of the disk for separate file storage of stuff off other machines.