Harddrive backup

what is the best external hard drive for macbook pro?

I have three of the 2 TB Mercury Pro Elite drives from OWC, http://www.macsales.com and they work great...quad interface so you have a range of choices for connecting.

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    Can you connect and access the device? You state you want to backup the content from it but at the same time you say it appears broken. What is your problem with the device specifically?
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    Using your iPod as a storage drive

  • Broken screen harddrive backup

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    Montes wrote:
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    Time Machine can back up external HDs (if they're formatted for a Mac) along with your internal HD.  See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #32 for info.
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  • Which harddrive/backup drive for my iMac

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    I the the internal HD has capacity for about 250GB if memory serves me right. I have about 200GB of stuff on it now, most of which is pictures in iphoto, music, and videos.
    Was thinking I'm going to need an external hard drive for storage and/or backup. But I'm not sure if an external HD can accomplish both? Was looking at a Gtech or Lacie. Basically I'm going to run out of room on my internal drive, so how do I move my older photos lets say to the second HD? Simply copy them over? or is done by backup, then I can erase whats on my internal HD?
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  • External Harddrive backup suggestions

    Hi,
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  • Restore Address Book from Time machine backups

    Hi,
    I need to restore my Adress Book contacts from my Time machine external harddrive backup. I found to Library/Application Support/Adress Book thing, but has Library is hidden in my MacBook, it seems to be hidden in my backup harddrive. A simple ''option'' click doesnt seem to work. How can i make it visible on my external harddrive?!
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    Navigate with the Finder into the location where your lost data would be located. Click on the Time Machine icon in the Dock or open the Time Machine application in the Applications folder. Navigate back to just before you deleted your data. You should find the missing data, select it, click on the Restore button.

  • I'm a Noob, and need help solving a backup issue.

    I previously had an Alienware PC with a 1TB harddrive.  I backed up to the cloud using Carbonite.
    I decided to get a new laptop and got a MacBook Pro with Retina.  It only has 128GB harddrive.  My plan was to use a 2TB external harddrive and back up both using Carbonite.  Well, turns out Carbonite only does external harddrive backup with PC's not Macs.  So, I need help.
    I have way more files than can fit on my laptop that need to be accessed and backed up on a regular basis, so it would seem time machine isn't the solution.
    What do you do? or would you recommend?  What is the best way for someone like me who wants continual access to and backup of a large amount of data?  Are there any good cloud based solutions you would recommend?
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    My list  for the original poster:
    Never consider any computer a data storage device, rather a data creation ,sending, and manipulation device. Anyone who thinks data is safe on any computer, even copied upon multiple partitions is making a mistake.
    Never backup your data exclusively upon magnetic hard drives or flash storage, nor consider same since magnetic storage degrades over time even under ideal conditions.
    Store important data on multiple servers on multiple continents. 
    Burn important data onto multiple copies of archival DVDs and store same in cool dark fireproof safes, hidden places, secret places, multiple places.
    Don’t burn data onto junk DVD’s purchased from consumer level electronics stores. These are not archival long life DVD’s nor reliable, nor trustworthy
    When data can be made to be everywhere, then there is nowhere it can be erased or destroyed.
    Most importantly know that 2 copies of your data is 1, and 1 is none, and 1000 copies stored in one place or building, is also the same as none when a fire occurs.
    Always consider and expect your computer’s hard drive to completely crash anytime, at all times, and thou shalt keep a cloned and updated hard drive handy at all times to return to immediate productivity and avoid program and parameter reinstallation and tweaking.
    When your data is decentralized, it becomes both everywhere and nowhere, accessible to all, destructible by none, cannot be collected together or permanently retrieved under any circumstances.

  • Code does not make any effect:need help

    hello friends,
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    When you formatted the system you erased everything on the harddrive, obviously, and so its just a matter of putting back the Apps and data that you want from your Backup that you made, BEFORE reformatting the harddrive.  You did make a backup, didn't you??   Your Time machine or other external harddrive backup can be used with Migration Assistant to return the iLife Apps to the iMac.  If he indeed purchased the iLife Apps from the App Store, then you would need to use His Apple ID account to redownload them; not yours.
    Oh, and to answer your other question, no, iLife is not a part of any version of OSX itself.
    Hope this helps
    Message was edited by: Radiation Mac

  • "...because you don't have permission to see its contents."

    I've got a 500GB Seagate external harddrive I back my stuff up on. I did a recent backup of my new macbook pro that replaced my old one. Suddenly my external harddrive icon is turquoise instead of orange – but what's more is that my previous harddrive backup files now all have locked folders. For instance, if I want to access my old music library from the backup, it says "The folder “Music” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents." I've tried command+i to changed the permissions but that didn't do squat. Now I have a handy-dandy harddrive of INACCESSIBLE files that I had backed up (so i wouldn't LOSE anything...). Somebody. Please.

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  • Just bought macbook air; had macbook macbook with Tiger software. What is best way to upload photos to icloud on old computer without upgrading it's software? thanks.

    just bought a macbook air upgrading from old macbook with Tiger software; what is best way to take photos from old backbook to icloud so I can see them or download on the new air; Have an external harddrive backup. photo library is too large to transfer directly.thanks.

    Memory size has nothing to do with it. I can open my 60GB iPhoto library with only 8GB RAM. Perhaps you have an incompatible version of iPhoto under Tiger with iPhoto under ML.
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    I bought a blu-ray drive just for archive purposes so I could have hard copy backups in addition to my harddrive backups. The price per disc seems to still be about $3 to $4 each.
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    I have installed throught a clean install on my T400 (recently bought, no important files yet), and I have resized my C drive so I have a new D partition. But after partitioning the system recovery through blue button (ThinkVantage) will not work. I did not purchase a Windows 7 license off lenovo because my University gave us MSDN subscriptions for Win 7 Pro.
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  • How do I backup an iTunes library if it is on an external harddrive

    Hi
    Like so many I have an iTunes library that is rapidly outgrowing my internal harddrive. (ahh Dr Who why did you have to be so good!!??!)
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    I just love this.  I may have found the answer which showed up (from 2008) when I posted this Q (but of course did not show up when I first searched :?
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    I will give this a test run over the weekend.  Cross fingers and wave that rubber chicken
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