Monday 23 November 2009

Back it up, Back it, Back it up, up, up … !

Wowsa!

Almost done!

Well, when I say done …

Do you remember me writing, yesterday, about re-arranging the various exterior drives, so I’ve effectively got a bigger back-up drive?

Well, I’ve finally managed to get the copying across done!

And managed to use Time Machine to back my main hard drive.

Which took a while, I know that!

Or, I should say, the initial back up tool a while; after all I’ve just backed-up about 75 gigabytes of data.

Now that’s done, Time Machine will — once an hour — do what’s called incremental back-ups; in other words, it’ll only add to the collection of backed up data, as and when it changes.

So that’s the big job out of the way!

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Now, I’m grateful, and lucky, that I’ve got both a Mac, and the exterior drives to use with Time Machine.

But having not used Windoze, I wouldn’t know where to start, software wise; although I’m assuming that the on-board System Restore would work pretty much in the same sort of way.

I know Gwen’s had to use it, I might she if she’d mind putting a comment up …

But I do know I’ve find this, after a quick Googling …




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