> > I just had the experience of a crashing macbook pro - short story, the > "timemachine" backup worked flawlessly for me >
But doesn't TimeMachine backup to some hidden location on the same hard-drive? I don't consider that a "real" backup. If I had NBN I could backup the whole lot to the cloud in a 15 seconds. Later this morning I'll to drop in to the local shop and get another 32GB SanDisk stick <https://www.sandisk.com.au/home/usb-flash/ultra-usb> (my Windows one is blazing fast), format it as HFS and use one of these commands: cp <http://ss64.com/osx/cp.html>, ditto <http://ss64.com/osx/ditto.html>, rcp <http://ss64.com/osx/rcp.html> or rsync <http://ss64.com/osx/rsync.html> (too many choices). I last used cp in 1993, the other commands I can't remember and might be more recent inventions. *GK*
