On May 1, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Carlos Nazario asked:

> I have an iBook with a 6 gig HD that I want to back up on my LaCie 20 
> gig USB HD. Each time I try to back it up it says a couple of 
> different things including that some things can't be copied. Is there 
> a easy way around this?

The way I do it is to get into the terminal and type

sudo ditto --rsrc / 
/Volumes/name_of_USB_drive/directory_where_you_want_junk_kept

It will prompt you for your password and copy everything, assuming you 
have administrative privileges.

Some people also recommend the GUI programs

Silverkeeper <http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/>
Carbon Copy Cloner <http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html>




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