backup 3
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ElDiabloConCaca
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If you don't have Backup 3 installed on the new hard drive, you need to download a new copy from www.mac.com.
Once you have it installed on the new hard drive, select "Restore from backup..." from the "Plan" menu of Backup 3. Choose "hard disk" and click "Continue." Select the previous backup, and click "Open."
Once you have it installed on the new hard drive, select "Restore from backup..." from the "Plan" menu of Backup 3. Choose "hard disk" and click "Continue." Select the previous backup, and click "Open."
wicky
play thing
On this subject...
Using Backup, is there anyway to access the archive other than via the Backup App? Does using Backup mean that I am committed to having a .Mac account? ... regardless of how much that might cost in the future?
Am I correct in thinking that this terrible? I think Backup is a handy enough application, and I have no problem with paying my subscription to .Mac.
However, at some point in the future, I may not wish to carry on with .Mac, and I don't want to find out that I can't access any of my old backup's when that happens.
Please tell me I'm wrong about this. I hate the idea that Mac are going down the M$ route.
Using Backup, is there anyway to access the archive other than via the Backup App? Does using Backup mean that I am committed to having a .Mac account? ... regardless of how much that might cost in the future?
Am I correct in thinking that this terrible? I think Backup is a handy enough application, and I have no problem with paying my subscription to .Mac.
However, at some point in the future, I may not wish to carry on with .Mac, and I don't want to find out that I can't access any of my old backup's when that happens.
Please tell me I'm wrong about this. I hate the idea that Mac are going down the M$ route.
ra3ndy
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I'd bet that for the purposes of restoring your Mac, you need to use Backup.
In the future, however, if you just want to make regular backups, say, to an external Hard Drive, there are tons of other programs out there for you. Carbon Copy Cloner & SuperDuper! are two favorites. Both of these apps will simply copy files to another loaction, thus useable universally.
If you want to back your data up to an internet server, then you're talking a slightly more complicated process if you don't want to use Backup & your .Mac account.
In the future, however, if you just want to make regular backups, say, to an external Hard Drive, there are tons of other programs out there for you. Carbon Copy Cloner & SuperDuper! are two favorites. Both of these apps will simply copy files to another loaction, thus useable universally.
If you want to back your data up to an internet server, then you're talking a slightly more complicated process if you don't want to use Backup & your .Mac account.
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
As far as I know, Backup will not work at all (not even to CD/DVD or a hard drive) without a .Mac account -- so you will be able to use Backup as long as your .mac account is active. If you let your .mac account expire, then yes, your archives will probably be useless.wicky said:
With that being said, Backup's backup files are simply .DMG files inside of a package. Just right-click the backup file, select "Show Package Contents", then navigate inside the /Resources/Contents (or something like that) and you'll see the .DMG file that can easily be mounted and backup files extracted.
ElDiabloConCaca said:
How sure are you of this? I've been a regular user of Backup, and I also have a .Mac account, but my back-up settings are both to an external HD and to DVD.
Are you saying that if I decide to let my .Mac account expire, that all of a sudden my back-ups to DVD and external HD will become inoperable?
I don't believe that to be the case.
wicky
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ElDiabloConCaca said:
Perfect! I didn't know about the show package contents command. That's great. I use Retrospect at work for a scheduled server server backup, but had a large backup to do to multiple DVD's a few days ago, and used Backup for it's complete simplicity. Knowing that the files are so easily accessible makes it a fairly worthwhile program.
Cheers ElDiablo... once again!
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
This was the way it was before Backup 3 -- previous versions of Backup would check for a valid .mac account when you launched Backup and refuse to launch if a valid .mac account wasn't present.lbj said:
It seems now that Backup 3 will allow you to backup to media other than an iDisk even without a valid .mac account, so backups are safe.
If one chooses to let their .mac account expire, I would highly recommend backing up Backup 3 (hehe), since the only way to download Backup 3 is by logging into .mac and downloading the software.
bigbadbill
Flaccid Member
I'd recommend finding another app for your backups. Apple's backup has failed to restore my files on 2 different occasions after hard drive failures, giving no explanation as to why. I've had no problem restoring a single file after accidentally deleting it or needing to back up to an older version, but this is the 2nd time backup has failed to restore all files after a harddrive failure. It will let me retore my files one at a time, no problem, but I've got 125 gigs to restore, I should be done sometime in late 2012!