Good way to backup entire HD?

AdmiralAK

AdmiralAK

Simply Daemonic
Is there a good way to backup my entire HD?
I have seen great things written about carbon copy cloner, unfortunatelly I do not have a large enough external HD to fit a cloned copy of my powerbook's HD (70GB of data).

I have read mixed reviews of intego's backupX product so I am reluctant to buy.

Are there any products out there that can
1. Backup
2. "stuff"
3. Write to multiple DVDs

????

If yes which ones? if no, any solutions ? :0
 
Look into Dantz Retrospect. It can compress up to
half the original size, and it's quite nice about going
to multiple destination volumes.
 
I am not sure how much room you have. But, you could use Disk Utility to make compressed disk images and, perhaps, get them on your external (maybe even a compressed disk image of your whole internal).
 
I have 20GB available on an external FW HD, and I also have DVD-Rs.
To backup 70GB of data it would take me 17 DVD-Rs (approx time: 20+ hours?)
I have backup (I have .Mac), but that is a lot of DVD-Rs and time. I was hoping for something with compression (50% compression or more would be awesome :D ).

I think in worst case scenario I will backup the most important things (documents, game saves, unbacked up installation files, etc), create a list of what is installed, and try my luck. If something goes wrong my documents are safe (but a pain in the arse to re install everything - that is why a backup with option to rewrite to HD is awesome).

I think my next gizmo will be an external 250GB HD :D
 
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