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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2006How to back up OSX and Win XP to an external HD if mac is non-Intel
How can I do this? I have a 320 gig external HD hooked to my imac via Firewire and Dell via usb. I want to be able to back both up to the same Hard Drive. How can I do this? Thanks. Jack > How can I do this? I have a 320 gig external HD hooked to my imac via > Firewire and Dell via usb. I want to be able to back both up to the same Hard > Drive. How can I do this? Thanks. > > Jack Partition the external drive appropriately.  SignatureTim lance_1012@hotmail.com > How can I do this? I have a 320 gig external HD hooked to my imac via > Firewire and Dell via usb. I want to be able to back both up to the > same Hard Drive. How can I do this? Thanks. > > Jack For years I've used Retrospect to back up all of the computers on my network to a single hard drive, and during the past year, to an Exabyte tape drive (saweet!). <http://www.emcinsignia.com/products/smb/retroformac/> SignatureJR If you format the external drive as Fat32, both MacOSX and XP can read and write to it natively. TK > How can I do this? I have a 320 gig external HD hooked to my imac via Firewire and Dell via usb. I want to be able to back both up to the same Hard Drive. How can I do this? Thanks. > > Jack On the face of it this is correct. However, I must say I will never do it again for large numbers of files on the Mac. The problem was not the large number, but rather that it was the devil's own job to find which files had failed to copy due to filename problems. Steve > If you format the external drive as Fat32, both MacOSX and XP can read > and write to it natively. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >>Jack > On the face of it this is correct. However, I must say I will never do > it again for large numbers of files on the Mac. The problem was not the > large number, but rather that it was the devil's own job to find which > files had failed to copy due to filename problems. The workaround I use for this is to tar cvfz the [relevant subdirectories of the] MacOS filesystem onto the FAT drive. (I use USB hard drives as backup devices). I don't know what this means. Steve Robertson wrote: > On the face of it this is correct. However, I must say I will never do > it again for large numbers of files on the Mac. The problem was not the > large number, but rather that it was the devil's own job to find which > files had failed to copy due to filename problems. The workaround I use for this is to tar cvfz the [relevant subdirectories of the] MacOS filesystem onto the FAT drive. (I use USB hard drives as backup devices). Some Mac filenames fail to translate to the Fat32 file system, so copying fails. tar is a UNIX archiving program - originally for tapes (tape archive). The idea is to pack all the files into one big, compressed file, hence hiding the problems from Windoze and Fat32. Steve > I don't know what this means. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > subdirectories of the] MacOS filesystem onto the FAT drive. (I use USB > hard drives as backup devices). >> I don't know what this means. >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >Steve Barry ===== Home page http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og > On the face of it this is correct. However, I must say I will never do > it again for large numbers of files on the Mac. The problem was not the > large number, but rather that it was the devil's own job to find which > files had failed to copy due to filename problems. > > Steve Steve - please read and digest: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html SignatureJR |
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