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The External hard-drive question for newbs
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<blockquote data-quote="clayneal" data-source="post: 1026294" data-attributes="member: 94153"><p>Hello , I will suggest that the most important thing to use you ex-hdd for is to keep a current back-up ! If you have not already started your back-up plan might I suggest that you do so today. Your iMac came with an .app called Time Machine which is as simple as pie to use . On top of that I will add that a bootable back-up ( which TM is not ) is also very important as well. I myself ( and a large # of good folks here ) use both a TM as well as either Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper bootable back-up.</p><p></p><p>Here are some links to get you started.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html" target="_blank">Apple - Mac OS X - What is Mac OS X - Time Machine</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bombich.com/" target="_blank">Carbon Copy Cloner - Home</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank">SuperDuper!</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>I hope this helps</p><p>Clay</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clayneal, post: 1026294, member: 94153"] Hello , I will suggest that the most important thing to use you ex-hdd for is to keep a current back-up ! If you have not already started your back-up plan might I suggest that you do so today. Your iMac came with an .app called Time Machine which is as simple as pie to use . On top of that I will add that a bootable back-up ( which TM is not ) is also very important as well. I myself ( and a large # of good folks here ) use both a TM as well as either Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper bootable back-up. Here are some links to get you started. [url=http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html]Apple - Mac OS X - What is Mac OS X - Time Machine[/url] [url=http://www.bombich.com/]Carbon Copy Cloner - Home[/url] [url=http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html]SuperDuper![/url] I hope this helps Clay [/QUOTE]
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