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muffy - Feb 20, 2006 - 11:55 pm

i have a Fantom hard drive formatted as mac os etended. can i back up my entire hard drive by dragging its icon onto the Fantom drive icon.

thanks

skapp - Feb 21, 2006 - 2:07 am

No. The proper way to make a backup clone of your hard drive is as follows:

1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the startup volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Drag the startup volume to the Source entry field.
5. Select the backup volume from the leftside list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Check the box to Erase Destination.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.

muffy - Feb 25, 2006 - 2:14 pm

that answered my question exactly. however, thinking further, i realize that is a one time back-up only. do you know of a source for back-up schemes or have you used silverkeeper and can you recommend a good scheme. thanks. i won't plague you further.
jessie nichols

skapp - Feb 25, 2006 - 2:24 pm

For some general discussion of backups see the following references:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html (read FAQ on Backup and Restore.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941.

For regular scheduled backups and incremental backups you should use a reliable and robust backup application. If you need to create CD/DVD archives and need to be able to create backup sets that span multiple discs, then the only choice is Retrospect (www.dantz.com.) For other uses I can recommend Retrospect and Synchronize! Pro X (www.versiontracker.com.)

skapp - Mar 6, 2006 - 2:16 am

Thank you for your positive feedback. I'm curious, though, about your comment regarding mythology and misinformation about Macs. Could you be more specific?

muffy - Mar 6, 2006 - 2:33 pm

maybe it was specific to women (i was working with macs in an all women school). people would observe what happened or what they did and turn it into a rule. for instance, "it won't start up until i push the power button three times". Then everyone in the office would do that on that computer. Then it became "iMacs need you tp push the start button three times". And, voila!!from ignorance of macs to myth in tow easy steps!

skapp - Mar 6, 2006 - 2:57 pm

Oh, my. Oh, my. I certainly understand your comment now!! Thanks for the explanation. You just can't drop something like that so casually without an explanation. It leaves far too much to the imagination.