I'd go for TimeMachine as well. Just plug a external drive in, and turn Time Machine on for it.
Or googledrive or dropbox if it needs to be offsite. (has anyone used these successfully as a target drive for time machine?) On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Steven Parish <ste...@businesscraft.com.au> wrote: > I just had the experience of a crashing macbook pro - short story, the > "timemachine" backup worked flawlessly for me - did a full backup of about > 400GB and restored it on a fresh install - all this done by the nice people > at my local apple store on the weekend (they also replaced the logic board > under warranty even though I was outside the 2 year warranty period). I > have always been a windows person, but I'm definitely liking the apple > experience (still develop under parallels which was about 200gb for the > image and this restored perfectly). Have been running for a full day now > with no black screen shutdowns! Life is much better. :) > > *Regards,* > > > > *Steven Parish* > > *Managing Director* > > > *BusinessCraft Pty Ltd* > > *Address:* Level 1, 270 Turton Road, New Lambton NSW 2305 > > *Mail:* PO Box 57, Lambton NSW 2299 > > *M:* 0417 688 599 | *T:* 02 4965 5555 <(02)%204965%205555> | *F:* 02 4965 > 5333 <(02)%204965%205333> > > *www.businesscraft.com.au <http://www.businesscraft.com/>* > > On 24 January 2017 at 09:19, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Folks, I have to take a snapshot of about 9GB of files on my El Capitan >> iMac. On Windows I would plugin a stick or portable and run robocopy with >> the /XD and /XF switches to exclude junk, but I'm not sure what the >> equivalent is on OSX. Does anyone have a handy technique for doing this >> sort of thing? Perhaps there are mysterious Unix commands I can use from >> the Terminal prompt -- *Greg K* >> > > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
