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Mac OS-X Back-Up: Time Machine, Super, Carbon Copy Cloner, Disk Utility?
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<blockquote data-quote="DaGrandMastah" data-source="post: 1323456" data-attributes="member: 219239"><p>Hey Elsels. Welcome to the Mac community. I'm new myself coming from Windows based PC's my whole life. It's really an amazing machine.</p><p></p><p>To answer your question, Time Machine is just awesome. I've always had issues with backing up my hard drive. I had a scare a while back where I thought I lost everything that I had that took years to get so I realize how important it is. The problem was that I never found a reliable program on Windows that would run in teh background without really tying up my system so I always used to do my backups manually of any important files....that was until I met Time Machine.</p><p></p><p>It's just insanely awesome piece of software. Basically you just set it and forget it. It'll make a backup of your initial system and all files once and then will do subsequent backups to any changes hourly. </p><p></p><p>I would just recommend getting a nice compact 1 tb or higher external drive. I prefer the portable ones becasue they don't require a power source. </p><p></p><p>The other thing I recommend (because I find hourly backups to be a little overboard) is to download timemachineeditor which will allow you to set up your backups on a weekly, monthly, daily etc basis. I personally set it to backup once a week at night but even when it runs in teh background the system doesn't slow down much.</p><p></p><p>I don't see the point of using any other software to backup your system with such an awesome (and free) program at your disposal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaGrandMastah, post: 1323456, member: 219239"] Hey Elsels. Welcome to the Mac community. I'm new myself coming from Windows based PC's my whole life. It's really an amazing machine. To answer your question, Time Machine is just awesome. I've always had issues with backing up my hard drive. I had a scare a while back where I thought I lost everything that I had that took years to get so I realize how important it is. The problem was that I never found a reliable program on Windows that would run in teh background without really tying up my system so I always used to do my backups manually of any important files....that was until I met Time Machine. It's just insanely awesome piece of software. Basically you just set it and forget it. It'll make a backup of your initial system and all files once and then will do subsequent backups to any changes hourly. I would just recommend getting a nice compact 1 tb or higher external drive. I prefer the portable ones becasue they don't require a power source. The other thing I recommend (because I find hourly backups to be a little overboard) is to download timemachineeditor which will allow you to set up your backups on a weekly, monthly, daily etc basis. I personally set it to backup once a week at night but even when it runs in teh background the system doesn't slow down much. I don't see the point of using any other software to backup your system with such an awesome (and free) program at your disposal. [/QUOTE]
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