How do I back up my WHOLE MacBook hard drive to my external hard drive?

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hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help as I'm not very good at things like this! I would like to transfer my whole hard drive on my Mac OS X version 10.4.11 on to my external hard drive. I have transferred files to it already but It seems like a very long process of transferring everything separately so there must be a way to transfer everything at the same time (I am very impatient!)

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you! :)
 

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hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help as I'm not very good at things like this! I would like to transfer my whole hard drive on my Mac OS X version 10.4.11 on to my external hard drive. I have transferred files to it already but It seems like a very long process of transferring everything separately so there must be a way to transfer everything at the same time (I am very impatient!)

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you! :)

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) or Super Duper will allow you to make a copy of your internal HD
 
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PPC Mini, 10.4.11. Intel Mini, 10.6.8. MacBook Pro, 10.14.6. M1 MBA 11.6.3 iPhone 5 iOS 12.5,
Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) or Super Duper will allow you to make a copy of your internal HD
and boot from it should your internal drive fail.
 
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Time Machine also makes a full copy (but not bootable) of everything on the hard drive (except, if you have one, a Windows partition).
 
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Time Machine also makes a full copy (but not bootable) of everything on the hard drive (except, if you have one, a Windows partition).

Hes on 10.4 no TM
 
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Another vote for CCC.
 

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