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From: Paul Goodman on 28 Jun 2010 18:53 Hello, After reading posts here concerning backing up my system, I have decided to purchase an external drive to backup my whole hard drive rather than just copying selected folders on to thumb drives. Some of the external drives that I am looking at state that "mac users may have to reformat the drive before using". How would I do that? -- Paul Goodman
From: Davoud on 28 Jun 2010 21:22 Paul Goodman wrote: > Hello, > > After reading posts here concerning backing up my system, I have > decided to purchase an external drive to backup my whole hard drive > rather than just copying selected folders on to thumb drives. Some of > the external drives that I am looking at state that "mac users may have > to reformat the drive before using". How would I do that? You would do that with Disk Utility. I wouldn't do it at all. I would buy a FW drove from Other World Computing and just plug it in. Pre-formatted for your Mac. You'll want SuperDuper as well. Will do a complete backup and make the external drive bootable. Davoud -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: David Arnstein on 28 Jun 2010 21:33 In article <2010062818532637090-goodmanp(a)comcastnet>, Paul Goodman <goodmanp(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Hello, > >After reading posts here concerning backing up my system, I have >decided to purchase an external drive to backup my whole hard drive >rather than just copying selected folders on to thumb drives. Some of >the external drives that I am looking at state that "mac users may have >to reformat the drive before using". How would I do that? The way I would did this was to clone my OSX installation DVD to my external disk drive. After that, I set up Time Machine software to use that external disk drive as a backup medium. The advantage of this approach is that disaster recovery becomes simple. I can (and I have!) booted a sick Mac Mini from that external disk drive. This is possible because it is a clone of the install DVD. The same drive holds all my Time Machine backups, so I was able to do a full restore from the same drive. -- David Arnstein (00) arnstein+usenet(a)pobox.com {{ }} ^^
From: Paul Goodman on 28 Jun 2010 21:43 On 2010-06-28 21:22:02 -0400, Davoud said: > Paul Goodman wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> After reading posts here concerning backing up my system, I have >> decided to purchase an external drive to backup my whole hard drive >> rather than just copying selected folders on to thumb drives. Some of >> the external drives that I am looking at state that "mac users may have >> to reformat the drive before using". How would I do that? > > You would do that with Disk Utility. I wouldn't do it at all. I would > buy a FW drove from Other World Computing and just plug it in. > Pre-formatted for your Mac. You'll want SuperDuper as well. Will do a > complete backup and make the external drive bootable. > > Davoud Thanks to Michelle and Davoud for your replies. I ended up getting, for better or worse, a WD Passport drive that was formatted for a Mac. I ran my first backup this afternoon and all went well. -- Paul Goodman
From: Paul Goodman on 28 Jun 2010 22:00
On 2010-06-28 21:33:41 -0400, David Arnstein said: > In article <2010062818532637090-goodmanp(a)comcastnet>, > Paul Goodman <goodmanp(a)comcast.net> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After reading posts here concerning backing up my system, I have >> decided to purchase an external drive to backup my whole hard drive >> rather than just copying selected folders on to thumb drives. Some of >> the external drives that I am looking at state that "mac users may have >> to reformat the drive before using". How would I do that? > > The way I would did this was to clone my OSX installation DVD to my > external disk drive. After that, I set up Time Machine software to use > that external disk drive as a backup medium. [SNIP] Thank you for your suggestion and reply. I ended up getting a drive pre-formatted for a Mac. I used Time Machine to do my first backup this afternoon. -- Paul Goodman |