[Russian Mac fan]

with Disk Utility? We are talking about 27 GB of data. So that would be about 40 disks - is that possible?

[Chinasaur]

Someone will correct me if Im wrong..but I think Disk Utility makes an image before burning so I think that would mean you would need 27GB free for an image to be made.

DiskBlaze (http://www.radicalbreeze.com/blaze/index.html) doesnt do backups yet, but its easier (and much cheaper) to use than DiskUtility, and not as expensive as Dragon or Toast.

[typoon]

Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
with Disk Utility? We are talking about 27 GB of data. So that would be about 40 disks - is that possible?

Why would you want to do something like that? why not just back up your important Files. the other stuff can be re-loaded

[Russian Mac fan]

typhoon, what if most of it is ITunes library?

[TheIceMan]

Russian Mac fan: Try Impression 2.0 - $25

Intego Personal Backup $59.95.

There are many others as well. But some of them do not allow you to backup to CD's. Good luck.

[Eriamjh]

Retrospect.

Get a DVD-R drive or just buy another HD.

[Russian Mac fan]

If I have a 40GB HD right now and am looking at buying an 80GB HD powerbook some time in the future would it be a good idea to go for an 80GB backup HD ahead of time?

Also, is this the best way to
transfer data to the new powerbook?

I guess my question is: is it pretty much like backupping a Palm/Clie to a memory card and then inserting the card into a new handheld to restore data. Is this a decent analogy?

[cold aspiration]

if you have an ipod, use it as a external hard drive. but im sure you would have thought of that already

[Russian Mac fan]

In other words, if I have a 40GB Ipod or even a 60-80+GB Ipod (when they come out) I can not only sync ITunes and IPhoto data but all other data on my powerbook's HD?

Because this sounds real nice and adds to my wanting to buy a large capacity IPod

Thanks!

[Russian Mac fan]

Anyone know the answer to my question above?

[splatq]

Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
In other words, if I have a 40GB Ipod or even a 60-80+GB Ipod (when they come out) I can not only sync ITunes and IPhoto data but all other data on my powerbook's HD?

Because this sounds real nice and adds to my wanting to buy a large capacity IPod

Thanks!

Yes, it'll mount like an external firewire hard drive.

[BlackGriffen]

Check out cdbkup in fink. Here is a brief description of what it does:

Code:
DHCP:~ user$ cdbkup
cdbkup is used to backup Unix filesystems onto CD-R(W)s. It can
be used either interactively for large (multi-CD) backups, or non-
interactively for higher-frequency (eg, daily) single-CD backups.

Usage: /sw/sbin/cdbkup 0-9 [OPTION]... DEVICE DUMPDIR
Options:
 0-9                 Indicates the backup level
 --help              Show this help message
 -1, --single        Burn last disk in single session mode
 -a, --append        Append the backup onto a multisession CD-R(W)
 -b, --blank         Blank all disks before writing (conflicts with -r)
 -c, --compress=TYPE Set compression to one of gz|bz2|none. Default: gz
 -e, --exclude=PATH  Exclude the specified file or directory
 -h, --host=HOST     Specify the hostname for remote backup
 -I, --no-iso        Don't create ISO images
 -l, --label=NAME    Set the volume label
 -m, --cross-mp      Cross mount points when dumping
 -r, --recycle       Same as -a, but blank the CD-RW first if data won't fit
 -s, --speed=SPEED   Burn at specified speed (default: 2)
 -S, --cdsize=SIZE   Specify the size of the storage media
 -t, --test          Don't burn the CD - just create archive files
 -w, --workdir=PATH  Set working directory (default: /tmp/cdworkdir)
 -z, --zip-here      For remote backups, perform compression locally
 -V, --version       Show version info

I've never actually used it myself (too lazy), so I can't guarantee anything.

The actual homepage of cdbkup is here.

BlackGriffen

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by BlackGriffen:
Check out cdbkup in fink. Here is a brief description of what it does:

I suspect this does not back up Mac resource forks, so this might not work for a system-wide backup. Still, looks like an interesting utility.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
with Disk Utility? We are talking about 27 GB of data. So that would be about 40 disks - is that possible?

I'd suggest Apple's Backup 2.0 if you have a .Mac account or Retrospect Express. Both with back up to CDR (though you will need a lot of CDs).

[starman]

Get an internal 100GB HD and an external case. Slightly cheaper than buying an external drive or a DVD-R drive, and much less trouble.

CAN it be done? Probably, but why go through the trouble? That's a lot of CDs, and if one goes bad, you can't back all of it up if you do it as an image. You'd have to make sure that all the files are treated individually so if a CD goes bad you don't lose any chances of backing up the rest.

Or...buy an iPod. There's your backup (seriously).

Mike