Backing up an external HD with that has the operating system on it.
My Hard Drive in my Imac has become too small so I have been running the imac from a larger external hard drive. Is it possible to connect Time Machine to back up only the external drive with the OS on it. It wants to back up the internal Hard Drive as well which is not what i want.
Check in System Preferences>Time Machine. You should be able to exclude the internal drive.
~Lyssa
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i have been told by my boss to find a class that will
allow him to send and recieve information to the
operating systems shell, as in dos, if i do not find
the solution i am to be fired, please help me....im
jp...but for real help me outIt doesn't seem that you have put yourself in a very good situation if you are about to be fired.
At any rate I think you want to use the Process class. Look at the API documentations for java.lang.Runtime and java.lang.Process. Using Process you can launch other programs (like system ones that run in the console) and you can read and write to the process using the input and ooutput streams of the process.
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A bootable clone is a bit-for-bit copy of all essential files in the startup volume. If using the Lions, clones can be made using CarbonCopyCloner or just plain old Disk Utility. These backups represent the safest protection of your info, but take the longest to do. Recovery is an inverse process: you copy the clone back into the internal drive.
Incremental backups start with a complete backup of the startup volume and only copy whatever changed from the previous run. OS X includes the fully integrated Time Machine backup utility to do this. It is extremely easy to do and takes the least amount of time. Recovery is another matter altogether since you have to start with a freshly installed instance of the OS and have to apply all intervening backups to bring the result to the latest saved version.
As for where the backup takes place, the recommended media is an external dedicated drive or drives connected via the fastest interface available on your Mac: Thunderbolt, USB3, Firewire, or USB2. Network-based backups, wired or wireless, are attractive but may not offer the same performance and hence take longer. Also important to note that the entire drive need not be completely dedicated to a single backup. The Mac's EFI firmware infrastructure allows for an unlimited number of partitions on a hard drive and each can be used for either type of backups.
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I have all my music on an external media drive that has crashed. How can I get the music of my ipod touch back onto the comupter without loosing the music when it syncs. in order to start rebuilding my music collection?
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Can I backup to an external hard drive that has been formatted with windows?
Hi, I am fairly new to mac. I was wondering if I can backup my mac book pro using time machine to an external hard drive that has been formatted with windows. Time machine is saying it must erase to the hard drive in order to do a backup? Please help.
No it has to be formatted for OS X. Mac Extended (Journaled).
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Hi there,
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Will Time Capsule back-up an external hard drive that is connected to it directly via USB?
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Does anybody know if this is possible (i.e. will the TC back up an external hard drive that is permanently attached to it,
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How do I go about removing the internal drive and mount it to an external enclosure @Linc Davis??? Sorry that I'm not too hip with all the technology lingo & etc?
You'll have to watch the video and buy a few tools to extract the driive.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
Then use something like this to connect to the other Mac or PC with MacDrive installed.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U3NVSPATA/
You also can get the same adapter elsewhere online for as low as $12 I've seen.
Likely it's a USB 2,1 which your Mac's can only accept USB 2,1 anyway, no need to pay more for a USB 3 unless you want too.
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You likely should be having a professional or Apple tech attempt to bypass the firmware password if you forgot it, it's the best way to go about things.
Just because the Mac has a spinning wheel gray screen at boot doesn't mean it's ruined, you just need to bypass the firmware password and then from there fix the machine's cause for not booting, which is likely a software issue from a third party kernel extension file.
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You should know that opening the iMac could likely ruin it and will ruin any warranty or AppleCare, and if it's a Early 2011 model or later you can't replace the hard drive yourself as Apple has proprietary software installed on the drive that needs to "talk" to OS X to control the fans speeds.
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