It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.Īlthough you can buy a complete external drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined.

Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant): You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software.

You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. Requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of theĪlternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. Used to manage backups and to restore backups. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences Ģ. as you can see, I've used them for years but have been fortunate in that I've never had to really dive into anything complicated, so don't really know what I'm doing.Īnd if there's information that I've left out that you need, please let me know!įor some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. There's no nifty 'time-machine' app that'll just do this for me, so I don't really know how to proceed.Īny suggestions would be greatly appreciated! And please forgive me for my amateur Mac knowledge. I haven't used this computer for more than looking at old photos for years now, and am not as familiar with the operating system as it used to be. I'd really like to back up the entire computer - I can't afford to add memory to it right now, and the battery is dead (which I don't have the money to replace) so I would like to be able to back everything up and open what I'd like on my other Mac, which is newer and not quite at risk for crashing on me. Hi! I'm not sure if anyone has some suggestions for me - I'm trying to transfer files to an external hard drive from my old macbook (OS X 10.4.11) and I'm having trouble.

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