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How to properly backup?
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Everyone is always talking about backing up, but usually they have an external hd. How do I properly back up my info? I have no external hd, but do have cd's and dvd's.
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youre not giving us much...
how much info are you looking to back up?
i usually back up my home folder on to dvd's and an external HD.
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At this point, probably a 2 or 3 gigs.
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If it's just 2-3GB, I'd burn your ~/ to DVD. Make sure to also copy over any third-party installers for mission critical apps you use.
That way, if your entire HDD were fubar'd, you could install a fresh OS X on a new partition, re-create your user account, copy over the backed up ~/, get permissions right and you're done (apart from installing third-party apps).
Of course cloning the entire partition to an external FW HDD is much more elegant and you'd recover even faster if you ever have a hosed partition.
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How does one do that?
I have a massive external USB drive, and would like to know which folders to back up for all my music, docs etc. Are there any hidden ones other than the obvious?
How do I clone the drive?
Thanks!
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Cloning a drive is very simple.
Start Disk Utility (it's in the Utilities folder) and select you main partition. Click 'Restore'. Drag your main partition onto the source field, drag the backup partition onto the destination field. Click restore. Done. 
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Does the target disc have to be totally blank? I get "An error (2) occurred while copying. (No such file or directory)" when I do this.
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You can select 'Erase Destination' before cloning. That should do the trick.
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IMHO, this is an area I would LOVE to see Apple come out with a nice program. Something that made it easy to backup all your music/pictures/preferences/email/etc. etc.
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Originally Posted by production_coordinator
IMHO, this is an area I would LOVE to see Apple come out with a nice program. Something that made it easy to backup all your music/pictures/preferences/email/etc. etc.
IMHO such app is the aforementioned SuperDuper, but -I think- you can not 'backup' to DVDs if that is what the OP wants…
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