Please bare with me. This does sound like it will work great. Now when you mean a compatible NAS or USB external Hard drive, what do you mean? Time machine icon????
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Best way to back-up on a mac
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What is the best way to back up my data that I have on my mac computer just in case something would happen? I dont' ever want to lose my files or pics, etc...
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If you have Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 or Snow Leopard 10.6 you have Time Machine. It should show an icon on your Dock. If not you'll find it in Applications.
Here's how to use it:
http://www.ehow.com/how
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Any standard USB external drive will be OK, but you'll need to format it. Time Machine will prompt you and do the formatting. NAS is networked storage.
You can also use a second internal drive for Time Machine if you have a Mac G5 or Pro.
See these links:
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Other programs which will do what you want are CCC:
http://www.bombich.com
and SuperDuper:
http://www.shir
Still more choices:
http://mac.appstor
You can also create a free account with DropBox and backup 20GB of data online. If you wish to save more than 20GB you can pay for 50 or 100GB.
Another service is Evernote. This allows you to store 50MB a month in the free version, 500MB in the subscription version. I use Time Machine to cover my operating system and both Evernote AND DropBox for my data files. They're all excellent and easy to set up.
Evernote is particularly good for text data; jpg, gif and png images; and pdf files because it has excellent indexing and search capabilities for those file types. DropBox is good for stuff you don't need to index - I use it for Word and Excel files.
http://www.evernote.
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When asking questions like this you need to tell us something about your Mac. Which OS you have and whether it's a MacBook, iMac, Power mac, Mac Pro, or something else.
You might also get more response if you offer more points for your questions. Apart from warm fuzzies they're the only reward Experts here get.
:)
I should add:
With Evernote and DropBox your stored data are automatically sychronized between your Mac and Windows computers and the cloud (online storage). So you can install them on multiple machines and have access to your updated files on all of them.
For instance, I have Evernote and DropBox installed on two Macs and one Windows machine, I can access the same data on all of them and as long as the machines are online they're automatically updated.
You can also access your files online from ANY computer - Mac, Windows, Linux or what-have-you - with an Internet connection.
Apple's MobileMe service is similar but I've found it to be a bit flaky and it's more expensive than the alternatives. It's very good if you wish to synchronize your Mail, Contacts, iCal and Address Book between Macs.
Thank you so much. I had no idea of all the different options on backing up files for a mac and I agree, this question was definately worth more points. I just wish I was better at this technology and knowing what should be scored higher! You certainly deserve it! Your answered were fantastic. Thank you again.
Your comments are appreciated ddezines.
:)
For future reference:
If you wish to change the points allotted before you close a question you can easily do so. For those who are Premium members or Qualified Experts there is no limitation on the number of points available to you, so I almost invariably allot 500 points to my own questions - it often gets the attention of more people and usually it gets a quicker response.
Another thing to help you. If a posted comment includes stuff you don't understand, Google is your friend. It's often quicker to find things for yourself than to wait for a response from the poster who may be in a different time zone to you and be unavailable.
For instance, if you wish to find a definition of something like NAS, in Google type in the format below:
define:nas
or
define:time machine
or
define:cloud
and Google will come up with a number of definitions. Note that there are no gaps between the words and the colons. If you include gaps you get different results.or
define:time machine
or
define:cloud
Hope this helps.
:o)
Alan.
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by: AshinpixelPosted on 2009-10-09 at 07:59:53ID: 25535697
Apple's own Timemachine solution is quite good, find a compatibel NAS or USB external Hard drive, and click the time machine icon in the top launch bar, it guides you through a wizard for backing up your files.
Hope this helps,
Ash