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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1485756" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>I don't know what your mean by master folder but here's what I suggest. </p><p></p><p>Use a Time Machine backup as a rolling, ongoing, full system backup.</p><p></p><p>Identify the folders with your critical data. For this example lets say its your music, pictures, video and documents folders.</p><p>Create four equivalent folders on the external drive.</p><p></p><p>Use a tool like Synkron to copy the files. What you do is enter music (Mac HD) as the source and music (ext HD) as the destination. Repeat for the other critical folders.</p><p></p><p>Synkron will remember these folder pairs so you just connect the external, run Synkron and it will byte-for-byte copy the files to the external. They should be, and will be identical in every way.</p><p></p><p>Using a sync tool like this means that after the first time where it will copy all files, the subsequent times will only copy new and changed files so will be quicker.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 1485756, member: 38928"] I don't know what your mean by master folder but here's what I suggest. Use a Time Machine backup as a rolling, ongoing, full system backup. Identify the folders with your critical data. For this example lets say its your music, pictures, video and documents folders. Create four equivalent folders on the external drive. Use a tool like Synkron to copy the files. What you do is enter music (Mac HD) as the source and music (ext HD) as the destination. Repeat for the other critical folders. Synkron will remember these folder pairs so you just connect the external, run Synkron and it will byte-for-byte copy the files to the external. They should be, and will be identical in every way. Using a sync tool like this means that after the first time where it will copy all files, the subsequent times will only copy new and changed files so will be quicker. [/QUOTE]
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