Macbooks & Backup

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I won't bore you with my situation.

500GB Macbook Pro. You keep everything on it from personal photographs to your 200GB music collection to work data.

What is the technology involved which backs it all up and can one simply attach a large external HD? Does the Mac automatically backup the entire PC on a regular basis?

Basically is there a fool proof technology so that if my MBP was stolen, I'd have a clone of it sitting on an external hard drive?

Many thanks,
 
Either a time capsule or an airport extreme with external hard drive and use time machine. Very simple to get working :)
 
Use time machine Macs automatic backup tool, I think apple over charge for the time capsule box it backs up to so I just use a windows pc with a network share and trick the time machine software into thinking its a time capsule box. Plenty of guides via google. I assume there must be away of doing this with a USB external drive aswell however I have not checked.

Time machine lets you restore the whole laptop if you need to or just files you have deleted etc.
 
Sorry i automatically thought about wireless backup doh! Like said above just plug a usb drive in and use time machine :)
 
LordSplodge said:
SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner will make a image (and thus backup) of your Mac to an external USB (or FireWire) disk.
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I use SuperDuper to clone my macbook every night to a 750Gb external Firewire drive (I have another copy of OSX on another external drive to do so).

Plus a 1Tb external Firewire drive for Time Machine which is constantly on.
 
Thanks for the replies.

If I opted for an Air I would only have 128GB and thus would have to keep my music/videos on an external hard drive. Would it still be easy to then get Time Machine to back both the Macbook and the contents of the external hard drive onto another, third, drive that is primarily for backup?

Cheers
 
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