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<blockquote data-quote="KevenM" data-source="post: 1717347" data-attributes="member: 377744">Oh, thanks MacInWin. That was very helpful. I had the same thing in mind, but people kept telling me to use Time Machine instead. I know about CCC and SuperDuper, but have my eye on ChronoSync (doesn't charge for new updates, plus had and has more updates than SuperDuper—although more expensive than both, initially). I will make a partition for each backup, which I hadn't thought about. One thing I don't completely understand: if I prefer to only back up the 75GB of files that I have on my MacBook, rather than the whole 250GB drive—what would I be scarifying if I don't have a bootable backup? If I don't mind having to take the few hours to have the hard drive changed, to reinstall OS X and then my files from the backup (if the laptop drive were to fail), is a whole-laptop backup still very important? If the drive were to crash, I could run everything—OS X and all—on an external hard drive? I'm not very familiar with how hard drive failures work (which I guess is kind of a good thing, in a way <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />).Regards.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KevenM, post: 1717347, member: 377744"] Oh, thanks MacInWin. That was very helpful. I had the same thing in mind, but people kept telling me to use Time Machine instead. I know about CCC and SuperDuper, but have my eye on ChronoSync (doesn't charge for new updates, plus had and has more updates than SuperDuper—although more expensive than both, initially). I will make a partition for each backup, which I hadn't thought about. One thing I don't completely understand: if I prefer to only back up the 75GB of files that I have on my MacBook, rather than the whole 250GB drive—what would I be scarifying if I don't have a bootable backup? If I don't mind having to take the few hours to have the hard drive changed, to reinstall OS X and then my files from the backup (if the laptop drive were to fail), is a whole-laptop backup still very important? If the drive were to crash, I could run everything—OS X and all—on an external hard drive? I'm not very familiar with how hard drive failures work (which I guess is kind of a good thing, in a way :)). Regards. [/QUOTE]

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