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Bought MAC for daughter - need to back up
I am a Windows XP veteran and finally caved and bought the first MAC in our household for my daugher who is going off to college.
It is a MacBook, with 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard disk. Got it all loaded up and she's off to school soon. I've used Ghost and Acronis on XP PC's many times and both products allow you to image a boot disk (C to a file on another disk (say D. You can then typically boot from CD and restore the file from D: back to C: and carry on where you left off. I've read some stuff on SuperDuper, CCC and Deja Vu. So here are my questions. 1. What external drive should I buy? Should it be USB2 or Firewire? I've read that the Intel MacBook supports booting from an external USB2 drive but is Firewire better or safer (probably faster)? 2. Can I image the internal MacBook hard disk to a file on the external drive? Is it a complete image including OS etc... 3. If the internal drive fails or gets corrupted, how do I get the image back from the external drive onto the internal drive (new or existing)? |
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