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Where to Start: The most important thing to do first is to decide upon your overall strategy - Recommended Reading: Take Control of Mac OS X Backups Hardware: You will need an unused hard disk (or partition). The clone will require the same capacity as the part of your current hard disk that is inuse, but if you are getting a disk now you should allow some extra space for growth over the next few years. If you get a bigger disk, you may partition it and use some of it for archiving documents more frequently between times when you clone your whole disk. You may also wish to use your CD/DVD for archiving some of your documents. Software: There are a number of software programs around that will clone a hard disk, ranging in price from free to several hundred dollars. A more expensive product does not always mean a more suitable program for your purpose, so you should check the programs capabilities for yourself.
Carbon Copy Cloner: When Tiger was released, it was discovered that Carbon Copy Cloner would not correctly handle some permissions correctly. To continue using this program it has been necessary to do a fiddle using the Terminal utility, however, it appears that this is no longer necessary as Carbon Copy Cloner has been updated to work correctly with Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.2). |