How do you Backup to external drive

How do you backup to an external usb drive?

There are a couple of ways.
1)Time Machine
2) Clone
3) Third-party backup App.
I prefer a mix of method 1 & 2.
This gives a brief rundown of the use of Time Machine.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Start with an external disc, formatted Mac OS, extended, Journaled. Then follow the instructions on the above document to create a routine backup that captures your changing files in their version state at each sync. Here's a place with detailed inner workings of Time Machine. Really good stuff.
A clone is a virtual copy of the entire internal drive that is placed on an external disk. In doing so, you can perform a simple restoration by "cloning" back the drive at any time, if it becomes necessary by drive failure or massive corruption. You typically use a third party application like Carbon Copy Cloner, or anotehr product like SuperDuper. I use Carbon Copy Cloner. It's free, and it works fantastic.

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