Backup Made Easy

A few weeks before Tiger’s introduction, I came across some large capacity LaCie disks at the Eugene Mac Store. I got a 240 GB unit, a bit larger than the Mac mini, that attaches by firewire to my Mac.

I used to try backing up by writing CDs, a painfully slow process, ill-suited to large video files (among others). So, backup often ended up as a postponed ‘to do” item.

Now, I backup by dragging folders to the LaCie drive. It’s great — room for photos, room for videos, room to back up my wife’s iMac.

Filed by: Dave Wilkins on May 26th, 2005

4 Comments »

  1. I agree with Dave.I trashed two thumb drives while transferring files between a 1st generation iMac and a new one for my folks. A spare Firewire drive makes good sense. In my case, I’ll take it with me when I visit my various family members. (Did I memtion that they are all Mac users?)
    Cheers

    Kerry Baird — May 26, 2005 @ 11:17 am

  2. Ditto! The answer to the limited “internal” expansion of many imac models is to think outside the box… A firewire cable makes expansion almost unlimited (& fast and easy) A quick survey finds drives from 80 GB @ less than $100 to (are you ready…) 1 TERABYTEs for less than a grand. I have been using a 120 MB for the last year and it has made my mac-life content… Although that terabyte looks…No-o-o… (P.S. if you have a machine that supports it, an external USB 2.0 is almost as fast as FW 400… and sometimes cheaper)

    Dick Lennox — May 26, 2005 @ 11:45 am

  3. If you are looking for a quick, clean, cheap way to perform backups behind the scenes without any sort of thinking…Deja Vu is a small preferencePane that does the job flawlessly. About $12 if I remember right, and they just launched a Tiger version. Once you select the source and destination, and set the daily or weekly schedule in the prefs, it effortlessly backs everything up without ever giving it another thought. This is how backing up ought to be:

    http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html

    Dan Pimentel — June 6, 2005 @ 8:11 am

  4. I’ve been using SuperDuper! for over a year now and I like it better than any other backup method I’ve ever used.

    http://shirtpocket.com/

    The devloper is totally accessible and a nice guy and the software is clean, simple, and just plain works.

    Richard — June 20, 2005 @ 7:30 am

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