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Backing Up Hard Drive For Leopard Install
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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I'm trying to figure out a way to back my hard drive up on my external drive without already deleting what is on the external. The programs I have found such as SuperDuper and Silverlining both wipe the destination hard drive. Can I partition the external hard drive without erasing what is already on it? Is there some other way to do this?
Thanks,
Patrick
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Slverlining doesnt wipe the destination drive... on my macbook it simply duplicates files contained in "Richard" to a folder on my external called "Richard".. all other data itunes library etc remains untouched!
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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CarbonCopyCloner works. You can backup your entire drive and make it a nice neat disk image which you can save on any drive. No need to wipe.
That is, unless you wanted your backup to be bootable or something.
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Do I need to make the backup bootable in case the leopard installation fails? Also, assuming everything with the installation goes fine, do I lose apps?
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Also my external is USB, I don't think CCC works with USB :/
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