Retrospect Hard Drive

So i would need an external hard drive to back all the data upto every once in a while ? ...

All of it! Or at least as much as you have room for on the destination device, be it CD, DVD or another hard drive. ...

CarbonCopyCloner will not span CDs, DVDs or hard drives. It's a utility to make a clone of your system, so, obviously, you cannot clone a 10GB system to a 4GB drive. ...

Just an observation, it only takes about 10-15 minutes to do a full erase and install of OS X (on my machine), the most timely thing would be getting the files back on the computer. (If you have a firewire HD, that would be good). Sorry if this is not helping though

Could I just stick another hard drive in it, and boot from that, until I'm satisfied that everything works? ...

I've used both Carbon Copy Cloner and Retrospect...I enjoy Retrospect much more than i did Carbon Copy Cloner.....Just my opnion. Retrospect is just a bit more stable for me and a bit quicker and a bit easier to use.... ...

Get your hands on a copy of Retrospect. Install a fresh image of Mac OS X and build your "ideal" image. Then, install retrospect and make a full hard drive copy or image of that install to a new hard drive, or tape back, whatever. Now you have an image. ...

like image that you can save to cd, dvd, tape drive, zip, jaz or just a file on the same hard drive or another hard drive. ...

CCC can copy all of your files to a new hard drive, partition or folder but it doesn't wrap it in an .img or .gho like Ghost and Retrospect. ...

purchase Dantz Retrospect 5. ...