HT2486 How to backup my Macbook Air Contacts?

I would like to periodically backup my Contacts in my Macbook Air. How do I do it?

The easiest thing to do is to use File > Export > Address Book Archive.
Details here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4653
Matt

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Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
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Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
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Our current setup includes 4 MacBook Airs that are hardwired to an office network that services 100+ office personnel. We are simply looking for an efficient way to backup all MacBook Airs "automagically". If we continue to hardwire to the existing network, is it possible to also "wirelessly backup" using Time Machine while connected through ethernet? How might we go about this?

Hardwiring Macbook Airs must be fun.. they don't have proper ethernet ports only usb to ethernet adapters.
If there is a file store somewhere in the network that can be formatted HFS+ or create a drive image that is HFS+ you might be able to backup using Time Machine without doing anything. Even with a Time Capsule you could ethernet connect it to the network and point TM backups to it.
Generally it is better for your setup to stick to one setup.
But you can do what you want if you must!!
You need to run two different network IP address ranges.. so for example if your ethernet network is 192.168.x.x then the TC on its default address 10.0.1.1 will be fine.. You cannot use this if the main network is the same ip range so you might need to fix the TC to another network range.
It is easier to leave the TC in default router mode.. don't worry about errors that it cannot get wan connection. Just set to ingore.
In each air, set a static IP for wireless.. so using the example at default.. each air would have ip address, eg, 10.0.1.10 for the first one.. 10.0.1.20, for the second and so on.
Set the subnet to 255.255.255.0
Do not set gateway (router) or dns.
The air can now reach the TC.. if you are close enough it should connect on the 5ghz band.. you can force this with using a different wireless name for 5ghz.
Or split them to have some on 2.4ghz and some on 5ghz.
It will then work happily without affecting their connection to the main ethernet network.
Point Time Machine to the TC and start the backup.. do each one, when the last one completes.. as the initial backup will take a few hours and it is pointless simply getting them all to fight together to get access. Once the initial backup is done further backups are fairly small incremental assuming the computers are not changing lots of big files.
Also remember this is a backup in a single disk device.. it has no backup itself.. anything you delete from a computer will delete on the backup eventually.. when TM is good and ready.

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    Boot to the Recovery HD:
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Hey akshar123,
Thanks for the question. I found the following information which may help to resolve your question:
http://www.apple.com/in/buy/
Where can I buy Apple Products?
Are discounts available?
Education
To get discounts for Education, call Sales on 1800 425 4646 (toll free) or 080 2574 4646, SMS "SALES" to 54646 or email [email protected]
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Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
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Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
From the menu bar, select
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
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Select
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My MacBook Air has a Flash Hard Drive capacity of 120.47 GB, of which only 26.22 GB are free.
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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so.
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If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
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Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
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