Don't spend that much! You can find cheaper prices for external hard drives such as this one at dell:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A2372826&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=BF&cid=7421&lid=197378&acd=10466193-404255-133280 1.5TB and less than 150 dollars. Jonathan On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Roger S. Cohen <[email protected]>wrote: > William Smith <[email protected]> wrote on 3/12/10 10:08 PM: > > > The best assurance you can ever take is to back up your files prior to > any > > update. > > > The advice to backup before updating is cold comfort to anyone who has lost > data. > > Nevertheless... I always make a clone of the internal drive to an external > drive using SuperDuper! before I do a major update, including MS updates > and > Apple's own updates. > > After the cloning process, I boot on the clone drive to make sure it is > working. If the clone boots properly, I reboot on the internal drive and > then do the update. If anything is screwy after the update, I can > immediately go back to the cloned drive and use SuperDuper! to easily > restore the internal drive from the external drive. > > Large external drives are now inexpensive. You can get a 1TB external > drive > in a case for about $150 - $180 from www.Weibetech.com or OWC > www.macsales.com. I have one WiebeTech clone for my iMac, and another > WiebeTech portable for the MacBook Pro. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International > [email protected] http://www.rogercohen.com > Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 > > > -- > YouTalk mailing list > List address: [email protected] > List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe > -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
