Disk Superduper

I use an external firewire drive for my system backups. I have 4 partitions on it, 2 are used to keep clones of my system drive, these are both bootable, 1 I use for daily incremental backups of my Home folder, and the last is for my iTunes and iPhoto libraries. This setup works well for me. There are several ways to select which disk to boot from, -System...

>try to retrieve the little things..like saved mail >messages and olf >mailboxes. >I would like to import everything to the new Mail.... >where can I find the old files on my system? You can manually copy those from Home(=your User Folder)/Library/ --> Mail, that is the folder you want to back up. (You can then place it into Library in your new user folder on the new...

DVD that came with the system so it's the boot disk and then repair disk on the HD. ...

I'm not Bob, but since he never responded to your request, I can tell you how to do it. The Restore tab in Apple's Disk Utility (OS X 10.3 and 10.4, but not 10.2) works almost exactly like Carbon Copy Cloner. It makes an exact bootable clone of your disk. The only options are to erase, or to leave alone the data on the destination disk, and to do a checksum...

hmm read the manual. sounds like the only way to do what i want (not erase disk first -- but just add the new files like a drag and drop) is to get the registered version of superduper is carbon copy as good? cheaper.... and can someone explain a bit to me how an "image" works? when i drag and drop, i get duplicates of the files i want on the new drive. easy. i can...

a little confused by Superduper it wants to erase everything on my target disk, and THEN copy some "image" onto the target disk. i liked with the dragging thing, that it just copied, but didn't erase -- and (ion the past) then i've been able to instantly open some of these files -- from the ext disk. seemed nice

Unless I am totally mistaken, since OS X saw the light of day, it is *no longer possible* to simply copy OS-related stuff around or burn it onto CDR. You will have to use a tool like CopyCloner (free, can be found through Versiontracker.com), SilverKeeper (free) or SuperDuper (commercial, but highly acclaimed) to back up your System Folder.

BTW... you don't have to use the entire disk for a backup... or even a partition. You can create a Disk Image on the backup drive... and SuperDuper will backup to that image. Instructions on their website. ...

Before anyone undertakes a major OS leap, PLEASE: 1. Purchase an external FireWire hard drive 2. Download Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper (simple yet effective cloning applications) 3. Run disk utilites on current startup disk AND blank external FW 4. Locate and read all related upgrade path information

I checked permissions using disk utility and it did not find any incorrect permissions. ...