I’m planning to purchase a one terabyte Western Digital My Book Essential external hard drive. I want to migrate my Time Machine backups for both my iMac and MacBook Pro to a larger capacity drive. The problem I have is both Time Machine backups are in two separate drives. I didn’t know whether moving a [...]
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Writing for Business Week, Arik Hesseldahl list’s Leopard’s Time Machine as his top Leopard peeve. Particularly, when it comes to using Time Machine with Mac portables. Having Macbooks or Macbook Pros as your main system requires you to either carry an external drive with you all the time or have one setup at work. The [...]
People have been posting in Apple’s discussion boards of having problems with using Leopard’s backup utility, Time Machine. Some of the problems encountered, which includes stalled backups, may be due to the backup drive’s partitioning, according to Apple. If running Leopard on a PowerPC, the external drive must be partitioned in the Apple Partition Map [...]
Backup vs Clone
Oct 27
With the attention Time Machine is getting from all the reviews of Leopard, you might have encounter the terms “backup” and “cloning”. Just what is the difference between backing up and cloning? The Mac Observer’s Jeff Gamet explains: When you clone a hard drive, you are making an exact duplicate. Since this new duplicate is [...]
