Backup

Can anyone tell me how to backup the config on the Airport extreme? ...

Thanks to both Satcomer and VirtualTracy. Finally had time tonight to backup the important email folders. Had to reload Mac OS X. The mail.plist in the Preferences folder was definitely the culprit. ...

rnal drive. Now my Time machine drive, which is a time capsule that is connected via ethernet to the imac, is contaminated and i can't access and therefore can't backup and get backups. ...

I took the Seagate External back and got the seagate FreeAgent because it is smaller. It has Auto BACKUP and SYNC SOFTWARE FOR PC printed all over the box. ...

I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. I would like to do the following, and am wondering if this is a good idea... 2GB Internal Drive = Operating System and... 2GB Internal Drive + 2GB Internal Drive (Striped RAID) = 4GB = Time Machine. (This is a total of three drives, one containing the OS, and the other two being RAIDed together into one 4GB drive for Time...

It's often a real performance killer for me. It usually takes several minutes just to prepare to copy files, all the while hitting the disk hard. Sometimes it can even take half an hour. I know it shouldn't and I can't explain why it does, but it does. I've actually disabled Time Machine and only trigger it manually from the menu. When I take a break, I select "Back Up...

What kind of backup did you do for the Mac side? ...

If you haven't copied GBs of data in the past hour, it'll only take a moment to backup the changes. ...

Pretty much any HD should work. Don't worry too much if it says something like "Works with Vista" but doesn't mention Macs. It's just marketing. Some drives have buttons on them that are supposed to do things with your computer like initiate a backup. Maybe those buttons won't work on your Mac, but you probably won't care.

Yep, Time Machine is a simple backup tool that keeps your system backed up and archived regularly and ensures you can retrieve deleted files if necessary. ...