[Superchicken]

Yeah I just had my boot partition die on me and I lost almost nothing but I did loose a file for the book I'm trying to write that was basically the whole time line which really sucked to have happen.
I mean it could have used a rewrite but... grr...

Anyway, getting to my point. I'm gona be buying an iBook in the near future for college, and would like to have a script or something that I could have automatically run, or perhaps be made to run, that would automatically back up a few very important things to another part of the hard drive encase anything did happen. I know I know I COULD just drag the files onto the partition, but that wouldn't be the same and it'd take more time, I'd rather be able to like once a week hit an icon or something, and have it automatically do all that stuff while I go and get a glass of water or something.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

[Mithras]

RSyncX or Carbon Copy Cloner. Both will back up quickly and seamlessly in the background, on a regular schedule.

A partition is good, but even better is a Firewire disk (enclosure plus drive), with a Folder Action to run the backup whenever you plug it in.

That way, even if a script or virus or power surge goes haywire and erases everything on every mounted disk, your backup drive is safe and sound.

[BZ]

There is also DejaVu which is a great little system preference. Been using it for months.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16206

Nice price too..

BZ