Disk Superduper

I've been having a world of trouble getting SuperDuper's scheduled backup to complete without errors. It seems to be a different error every time. I'm backing up my MacBook Pro to a bootable image on a Windows 2003 file server. SuperDuper's support has been terrific and Dave Nanian (who wrote the application, I believe) has provided a lot of input and offered a lot of...

'... should i clone the hard drive ...' - this is you only option if the iMac is booted from MacOS X. '... or just drag folders one by one to the ext drive? ...' - this is not an option with the iMac booted from MacOS X. You will inevitably come across an alert stating that a file cannot be copied, etc. If you can boot the iMac with System 9.2.2 or earlier - you can then just...

You might want to read up on Resolving Kernel Panics to prepare yourself for the next kernel panic if it ever happens again. Cloning is a good way to backup your startup disk. I use Superduper!. Just make sure the external drive has sufficient amount of space to create a clone of the startup disk.

Set the Startup Disk preference pane to boot from the newly installed, newly cloned hard drive. ...

My Powerbook has a measly 60 GB HD which I backup with SuperDuper every night to half of the same FW HD and the other half is the aforementioned storage. ...

I run disk warrior, which shows the drive to be fine, I run permissions repair and disk repair from the the disk utility, which show no real problems, just the usual minor stuff. ...

FWIW, and AFAIK, another way to migrate is to make an exact copy to a Firewire disk using SuperDuper. SuperDuper will allow you to make an exact copy of your disk that works well in its demo mode. ...

This is going to be and hard at the same time. First thing to do is get a Firewire External hard disk (as big as your current internal). Then backyup (Clone=bootable : Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper) and backup your current setup. Then buy your new internal hard disk (like these) and get some tools (like this). Also foolow the site pictures at here and see the video right...

so I cloned it with superduper and I've switched the old hard disk with he new one. ...

DOS File System' with Mac OS 10.4.11. But Disk Utility failed in 3 seconds, and gives an error. ...