I picked up my MacBook Pro with it's second new motherboard on Friday. The previous new motherboard was installed in July. The last time I lost my hard drive too.
I'm getting an external USB drive and am going to back everything up with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper.
That'll give me a total backup of everything.
Further reading:
The State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X.
Problem tracking since Friday:
Photoshop - Hang
Firefox - Hang
Empty Trash - Hang
No Internet activity - Cable Modem reboot
Mac- Hard Reset/Reboot
No External drives in Finder
Shutdown/reboot
Will not power on
CMD OPTION CTRL POWER, Let Go - Powers on
Your thoughts on PowerBook backup solutions? Thanks.
Replies I got on twiter:
joshpaul - plan on FW to take advantage of TimeMachine in the future
Lan Bui - Firewire is much faster for backups. I use SuperDuper! well worth the money!
David Weinberger - backupo to firewire, if only because it has a cooler name. (also, faster transfer rates, last time i looked)
Thanks!
I use SuperDuper on a dedicated external HD. Every week I do an incremental scheduled backup. Works like a charm and worth the $$s.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how many times I've gone over to the backup to bring back some file i've messed up.
Hi Steve:
ReplyDeleteI have had excellent results for many years with Retrospect Desktop 6.1; $129 in a boxed version, $119 if you buy online and download it.
I setup a 'backup set' and create a script to backup everything. Don't use compression -- it can take additional days to do the full backup.
http://emcinsignia.com/en/buy/buy_step1.dtml?platform=macintosh&family=retrospect
I recommend buying a triple interface drive from Western Digital (My Book) or G-Tech (G-Drive) and using the Firewire 800 cable.
http://www.directron.com/firewirevsusb.html
I have had very poor results in the past two years with La Cie D2 and Porsche drives; the drives have failed repeatedly, and their power supplies cause apparent drive failures.