Upgrade from Tiger to Leopard questions:

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Hi, since its after the holiday season I've found myself with a bit of spending money and finally want to upgrade to leopard. I am fairly certain I meet all of the system requirements (Intel Core Duo processor, 1 GB ram, and plenty of disc space) and now I just have a couple (probably very basic) questions.

How much space do I need to preform a backup?

How do I preform a backup?

All my important files are already on a hard drive but do I need to backup things like programs? (Specifically M$ Word which a former friend of mine borrowed the install discs and I haven't spoken to him in over a year, and I'm not 100% sure where my printer software is but I think you can download it off line.)
 
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From what u are saying it would seem that you should have a look at the bootable back up scene. Using eg; SuperDuper allows one to actually boot your computer off the Ext HD just by holding Option Key after powering on. The copy is a mirror image and is great protection when u have a computer HD failure, as you can actually boot off another Mac and have all your files as they were. Once you have that copy on your Ext HD - and Firewire is faster than USB so the better choice, FW800 is even faster but depends on which Ext HD you have - then you can do a clean install of Leopard then update to 10.5.8 using combo update here then import files back from HD as you need them.
 
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Without an external drive, try doing an Archive and Install as large programs such as Word do have problems at times backing up, and you will be able to get 99% of printer drivers online, and if you cannot try Gutenprint. With Archive and Install your old operating system and files will be contained in a folder. Simply transfer them across.

Leopard requires about 20GB for the full install including printer drives which is on the DVD.
 
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snow leopard would be nice... for some reason i thought you couldn't go directly from tiger to snow leopard
 
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Yes, you can. It just costs more, if you play by the rules. You'd need the SL "Box Set" which includes iWork '09 for $169 US.
 

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