[muglo] Re: importing data from separate hard drive
- From: Martin Albinger <max@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:41:46 -0500
Following both threads, it sounds like Doug suggests a reformat. If
you have moved everything from the G3 to a DVD then yes go ahead and
reformat the drive. In your utilities folder is a program called
oddly enough Disk Utility. It will reformat the drive. I would
cjose Mac OS extended and journaled. Tehn all you hvae to do is
start up Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) chose the source disk and then the
target disk (the G3 drive you just fomatted) and ket CCC do its wok.
It will do a complete clone if you want it. This would mean that you
ahve an identical (at that moment in time) drive which would boot up
etc. At this point an much longer discussion on back-up strategies
is required in order to pick the options best suited to you.
For example, if you don't install a lot of programs, tweak your OS
etc CCC will allow you to do incremental back-ups of just changed
data files. You'd have to do more reading of the CCC manual to
determine your best approach.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Theresa Roth wrote:
> Do I have to reformat first before using carbon copy cloner? How do I
> reformat?
> I have downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and would like to try it. I
> have been
> backing up my files weekly onto this drive from my defunct G3. I
> would like
> to try to back up everything not just the files I am using so as to
> back up
> calendar and address book data as well.
>
> Theresa
>
>
> On 28/12/08 11:08 PM, "Douglas Feick" <dejl6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>> HA HA! The ironies . . .
>>>>
>> The alternative, since you are planning to use one of the 2 extra
>> drives as a back-up disk, is to back up to DVD first, then transfer
>> your files, making sure everything is working the way you want it,
>> then reformat the drive you are going to use for back-up and use
>> Carbon Cloner to transfer the data to your spankin' clean back-up
>> disk...Doug
>
>
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