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rambaud2 - Apr 17, 2006 - 4:26 pm
Hi,
Thank you for providing this service, this is my first time using this terrific resource.
My question is what is the definitive way to back up your internal hard drive to an external firewire drive and wind up with a fully bootable disk?
I realize this is a pretty fundamental question but the reason I'm confused is because when I called Apple support I was told I could drag and drop my hard drive onto my external drive. This seems to contradict some of the information I've read in the forums which says OS X needs to be backed up (cloned?) with either Carbon Copy or Super Duper.
Here are the problems I've encountered:
Had 10.2.8 on a Powerbook G4 for a couple of years, updated to 10.4.6.
When I went to drag and drop my HD to external firewire 400 drive (as per Apple support instruction) I was getting permission error dialogue boxes and things seemed to be copying very slowly (I have a 30 gig HD which is nearly full) and then I received a dialogue box which said: The
Thank you for providing this service, this is my first time using this terrific resource.
My question is what is the definitive way to back up your internal hard drive to an external firewire drive and wind up with a fully bootable disk?
I realize this is a pretty fundamental question but the reason I'm confused is because when I called Apple support I was told I could drag and drop my hard drive onto my external drive. This seems to contradict some of the information I've read in the forums which says OS X needs to be backed up (cloned?) with either Carbon Copy or Super Duper.
Here are the problems I've encountered:
Had 10.2.8 on a Powerbook G4 for a couple of years, updated to 10.4.6.
When I went to drag and drop my HD to external firewire 400 drive (as per Apple support instruction) I was getting permission error dialogue boxes and things seemed to be copying very slowly (I have a 30 gig HD which is nearly full) and then I received a dialogue box which said: The
bobw - Apr 17, 2006 - 4:37 pm
Hi Ram
You can't drag and drop a system in OS Xlike you could in OS 9 or earlier systems.
You have to use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone the drive. This will clone everything and make a bootable backup.
You need to keep at least 15% of free space on your boot drive, otherwise you risk data corruption, data loss and hard drive failure.
bobw
http://www.macosx.com
You can't drag and drop a system in OS Xlike you could in OS 9 or earlier systems.
You have to use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone the drive. This will clone everything and make a bootable backup.
You need to keep at least 15% of free space on your boot drive, otherwise you risk data corruption, data loss and hard drive failure.
bobw
http://www.macosx.com
rambaud2 - Apr 17, 2006 - 4:49 pm
Ok, got it thanks-can't believe Apple support would tell me it's okay to do.
Second problem I have is while doing disc repair for permissions all my media that had been copied onto my external hard drive disappeared but it still is indicating that it's half full. What do I need to do, reformat my external drive?
Second problem I have is while doing disc repair for permissions all my media that had been copied onto my external hard drive disappeared but it still is indicating that it's half full. What do I need to do, reformat my external drive?
bobw - Apr 19, 2006 - 12:31 pm
Ram
if you still have the originals on your internal drive, then reformat the external drive as Extended.
Then use CCC or SD.
bobw
http://www.macosx.com
if you still have the originals on your internal drive, then reformat the external drive as Extended.
Then use CCC or SD.
bobw
http://www.macosx.com
rambaud2 - Apr 19, 2006 - 1:47 pm
Used SuperDuper, reformatted external drive, everything went well.
Thanks again for your help.
Thanks again for your help.
rambaud2 - Apr 19, 2006 - 1:47 pm
Used SuperDuper, reformatted external drive, everything went well.
Thanks again for your help.
Thanks again for your help.
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