Moving programs to external hard drive

alexle92 · alexle92 #1 (**permalink**)

03-01-2012, 09:29 PM

How can I move programs on my mac to an external hard drive for backup?

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

03-01-2012, 10:00 PM

If you tell us which Mac you have and what version of OS X it's running, we can answer your question.

alexle92 · alexle92 #3 (**permalink**)

03-01-2012, 11:24 PM

Running Lion on an early-2011 MBP

chas_m · chas_m #4 (**permalink**)

03-02-2012, 02:01 AM

Is there some particular reason you're not using the built-in Time Machine?

alexle92 · alexle92 #5 (**permalink**)

03-04-2012, 09:54 PM

Using Time-Machine would require me to reformat my external hd and erase everything.

chas_m · chas_m #6 (**permalink**)

03-04-2012, 10:30 PM

You could use either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner (shareware and donationware, respectively) and save the backup to a disc image.

Of course this begs the question: how are you backing up the stuff that's on the external HD?

tape · tape #7 (**permalink**)

03-05-2012, 10:06 AM

alexle92
the only way you can backup your programs to an external HD, from my experiences & w/o creating a disk image, is to have a HD that is formatted HFS+. Time Machine will automatically format and CCClone will only copy over your USER info if formatted in either of the fat formatting modes. I stand corrected if I am in error in my statements

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,955 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	03-01-2012, 10:00 PM If you tell us which Mac you have and what version of OS X it's running, we can answer your question. Community Guidelines
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chas_m #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 22, 2010 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 13,696 Mac Specs: 2009 MacBook Pro, Black speakers, Black Benq second monitor, black iPhone 4, Black 2012 iPad, etc.	03-02-2012, 02:01 AM Is there some particular reason you're not using the built-in Time Machine? Cheers, chas_m -- My essay for switchers and newbies
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Member Since: Jan 22, 2010 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 13,696 Mac Specs: 2009 MacBook Pro, Black speakers, Black Benq second monitor, black iPhone 4, Black 2012 iPad, etc.	03-04-2012, 10:30 PM You could use either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner (shareware and donationware, respectively) and save the backup to a disc image. Of course this begs the question: how are you backing up the stuff that's on the external HD? Cheers, chas_m -- My essay for switchers and newbies
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alexle92 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 01, 2012 Posts: 7	03-01-2012, 09:29 PM How can I move programs on my mac to an external hard drive for backup?
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alexle92 #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 01, 2012 Posts: 7	03-04-2012, 09:54 PM Using Time-Machine would require me to reformat my external hd and erase everything.
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tape #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 14, 2010 Location: Orange County, NY Posts: 104 Mac Specs: iMac-27":OS10.8:3.4GHz:16GB iPhone4	03-05-2012, 10:06 AM alexle92 the only way you can backup your programs to an external HD, from my experiences & w/o creating a disk image, is to have a HD that is formatted HFS+. Time Machine will automatically format and CCClone will only copy over your USER info if formatted in either of the fat formatting modes. I stand corrected if I am in error in my statements
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