SuperDuper

up. I use SuperDuper and it works just fine. ...

Stay far away from Symantec on OS X. Your can find all over the Mac web sites how a Symantec product messed up an OS X machine. If you want something automatic, fast, bootable, and live updating then consider ShirtPockets SuperDuper.

To back up it is important to have a SEPARATE hard drive, like a firewire external hard drive. Then download a backup program like SuperDuper or Carbon copy Cloner and use it to back up. ...

Would it be a good idea to clone the imac with something like SuperDuper and cloning it onto this firewire drive and boot OS X from it? ...

I've also thought about whether SuperDuper had been copying any of that data in its back ups, so I've created an exclusion for that hidden directory in my back up script. ...

these are all symptoms of lack of space on your main disk. best bet is to buy a new big disk and install it in your g4 (although don't go bigger than ~120gb, as your g4 won't be able to see anything that exceeds a 128gb drive) and these can be had for less that £50, then use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to clone your existing disk accross, then set the...

...I could add it before, but now I can't. I searched the forum for a solution, but to be clear, this is definitely not a FAT32 formatted drive; it's an HFS+ partition on an internal SATA drive. I'll explain the setup further. PM G5 Dual 1.8GHz, Mac OS X 10.4.6 I have identical Maxtor 6L300S0 300GB SATA drives intalled in the upper and lower bays, each split...

Hi: Unfortunately, I was trying to play iTunes while using SuperDuper to back up a B&W G3 Tower running OS X 10.4.6 (700+ meg of RAM). I should have known better ... it choked on it and after rebooting the G3 would not run any app after booting. I did an archive and install with the Tiger DVD OS and everything seems to have come back rather nicely. Have lost no files...

'... 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...

Welcome, Cimmerian! Not having any prior experience with Veritas, I can only say that if it will clone data bit for bit to a new volume, then no, there won't be any permissions problems. If it doesn't, that standard tricks of the trade here are SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner. They're free and wonderful, just google 'em.