[tomb]

Anyone know how I can make a back-up of my OS X disk?

thnks

-t

[bradoesch]

Use Carbon Copy Cloner.

[tomb]

thanks.

I d/l'd it and will use. Just for info's sake, isn't there a way to do it in disk copy as well?

-t

[Terri]

Carbon Copy Cloner is excellent for doing a complete backup.

But for daily incremental backups I'm using Data Backup X,
http://www.prosoftengineering.com/pr...ata_backup.php
to a Firewire drive.

It's been working very well. I set up a crontab to open the program at 2 am and then Data Backup X copies everything, compresses it, that has been changed from the day before and then quits.

[tomb]

I appreciate all of the addvice, and i'll be using it, however, my question was in regard to the os X install disc. Making a backup.

thnks

-t

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by tomb:
thanks.

I d/l'd it and will use. Just for info's sake, isn't there a way to do it in disk copy as well?

-t

Ahh, a bit of Latin and Greek mixup. The Latin way is disc, which is normally what people use when talking about CDs. The Greek way is disk, which normally goes with hard disk, floppy disk, etc. Since you used 'disk', I figured you meant hard disk.

And yes, you're absolutely right about using Disk Copy to make a backup of your OS X disk. You simply go File->New->Image from Device. If you're running 10.2 that is. It's a little different for 10.0-10.1. Once you've made the image, click File->Burn Image, choose the image and burn that sucker. Of course, that applies to 10.2 as well. You'll wanna make sure you don't have the image mounted when you try and burn it.


Brad

[tomb]

Thanks Brad,

Tis' done and done successfully at that. I admit I was being loose in my word usage, and your point is well taken disc vs. disk. I believe, however, that they are indeed interchangable. Looked it up on OED and it seems they are interchangable at this point in time. Of course this is a fascinating point you've brought up. Disk as short for diskette, i.e. the floppy. Let's continue this.

-t

[Agent69]

Yeah, but you were talking about a "Compact Disc", not a floppy.

[tomb]

good point agent, job well done.

-t

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by tomb:
Thanks Brad,

Tis' done and done successfully at that. I admit I was being loose in my word usage, and your point is well taken disc vs. disk. I believe, however, that they are indeed interchangable. Looked it up on OED and it seems they are interchangable at this point in time. Of course this is a fascinating point you've brought up. Disk as short for diskette, i.e. the floppy. Let's continue this.

-t

I agree. Quite interchangeable. I just felt like babbling about the history of the words.

[tomb]

I agree, etymology is fascinating.

-t