Easiest way to backup music/photos/documents?

What is the easiest and most cost efficient way to backup all my music/photos/ and documents? I've probably got about 5-10GB. Thanks.

Refer to the Apple manuals for doing a backup/restore. All you need is a place to dump your home folder. I highly recommend backup this entire folder. In the event of any kind of hardware failure, restoring this will have you up and running with all of the settings you are familiar with now. Restoring is about as easy as dragging your home folder back into the users folder. It's very simple. Depending on the size of your home folder and the type of external drive, be prepared to wait up to an hour for the copy to complete. I backup 44GB to an external usb drive in about 45 minutes. In order to copy your home folder you will need to enable the administrator account which is explained very clearly in the Apple backup/restore manual.

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