Hi Tiffany. Assuming your hard drive is large enough, I would suggest
splitting it in to at least two partitions. The first of these would
be used for time machine, and the other as a bootable clone of your
drive. You can use a program like carbon copy cloner to make the
bootable clone. Time machine is nice because it automatically backs
up any changes to your drive without you having to do anything. On
the other hand, you can't boot from that backup if you need to. This
is where the clone comes in. In the event that something goes wrong
with your external drive, you can boot your mac from the clone. This
might enable you to fix the internal drive. But even if you can't,
with the clone you can still use your mac until such time as you can
get your internal drive repaired or replaced.
Darcy
On 17-Sep-08, at 3:54 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
Ok, so I got my new external hard drive and am wondering. What's the
difference between using Time Machine to back up my files and just
copying and pasting? I want to back up things on a few different
computers: my Mac, my parents' XP desktop, my XP desktop and possibly
my XP laptop, if I can ever get it to work long enough to do that.
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
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