Backup

This drive will become my work drive. But I want to be able to take home a backup of it overnight for access and security reasons. So I am wondering if I can plug a USB portable drive into it? ...

My neighbor had the same problem this week. Two different Nanos would show up on the Desktop but not in iTunes. An iPod Touch worked just fine. I, too, tried all of the normal things, to no avail. Since they were also seeing some weird problems with iPhoto (beachball requiring a Force Quit), I decided to pull out the big guns: I reinstalled. I did a backup with Carbon Copy...

have a Time Machine backup of that Mac. ...

I had been currently using the disk with Time Machine and it was working well. I then setup SuperDuper! to backup to this drive also. According to my selections, it was supposed to be backing up alongside the TM backups and to leave them alone. ...

ill do a hell of a lot better job of backing up then the WD software. Its like having an image that gets updated every hour of every machine and once the initial backup is done you won't even notice the incremental backups going in the background. Not to mention you set it and forget it. ...

Its the whole iphoto library from your pictures folder from the last known good time machine backup.

Carbonite is an online backup program that I did the Trial for, decided I didn't want it, and then uninstalled it... properly. It appears that something is reaching from beyond the grave. ...

Internet access drops. Airport turns off and is unresponsive when I click to turn it on. I have my Ethernet plugged in as a backup but SOMETIMES that doesn't even matter. I will have a green light on for it but I will still get no internet. ...

Hi Support Crew... I have a 13" MacBook(2,1). Today, I had the Iomega drive plugged in via USB, along with my soundcard (MOTU 828mk2) plugged in via FW. This is a very normal setup for me which has been bug free since I bought this computer over 2 years ago. When I plugged in my iPhone via USB I got an error message which comes up when you incorrectly remove a device....

I finally got it up and running again! I did a time machine restore again, but this time, I formatted the drive under disk utilities instead of just using the reformat that time machine does, restarted the computer, and restored the time machine backup. Booted right up! Thanks for the help.