I am running Mac OS X and need to back up before installing Snow Leopard , can I back up to my Time Capsule?

I am running Mac OS X currently and need to upgrade to Snow Leopard. First I need to back up my computer. I have a Time Capsule that automaticallyt backs up Snow Leopard and above but do not have Time Machine on this system. How can I back up what I an currently running?

Do I download these? I am not particularly good at this, so any help would be great. What I know now is that it is recommended to back up current comuter before installing snow leopard, but I have no idea how to do this. I know I can go from 10.4.11 directly to Snow Leopard but am afraid I will lose data.

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I've heard ideas like installing it with a virtual cd from an external hard drive and installing it using another computer's dvd drive.
I could borrow or buy an external dvd drive but I first want to find a way to try to get Snow Leopard installed and I don't want to buy a dvd drive if I'm going to use it once and I'm kind of shy and don't like borrowing stuff from people but If i have to I will.
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How to Install OS X Updates Successfully
A. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions:
Boot from your current Tiger Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
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Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
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Boot From The Snow Leopard Installer Disc:
Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
Restart the computer.
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Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
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Use Software Update, or
Download standalone updater(s).

How to partition to install Snow Leopard and Lion on one computer

My first posting:
My iMac came with Leopard. I upgraded to Lion, 3 months ago. I found out that Appleworks doesn't work anymore... very displeased because I always used Mac Strong points (for the past 30 years), which is drawing, like McDraw, McDraw 11, Clarisworks, Appleworks, etc. Apple could have have included a software in iworks to open the numerous works I have done over the years in drawing. Now iDVD doesn't come with Lion anymore. Another blow from Apple!! And iDVD 7.1.2 (after upgrade from Leopard's iDVD) doesn't work too well in Lion... quite a few things are wrong.
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I have a 1 tera WD Firewire as an external HD. I have tried a few ways to install Leopard on my external HD with no succes.
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MartinR says:
Connect your WD Firewire drive. Open Disk Utility and check to make sure that it is partitioned as GUID partition scheme (assuming you have an Intel iMac) and is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If not, you will need to repartition and reformat the drive - note that this will erase everything that is on the drive.
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-If you have an Intel Mac you cannot install OS X to a drive that is partitioned as Apple Partition Map; it must be GUID Partition Scheme.
-Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is the same as the "HFS+" as previously mentioned.
-For the disk to be bootable it must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) not plain Mac OS Extended.
Next, insert your Leopard install DVD in your iMac. If the installer opens, just exit/close the installer window. Do not remove the Leopard install DVD from the drive.
Shut down your Mac. Then restart it by holding down the "C" key while it starts. This will make your iMac start from the Leopard install disk that is in the CD/DVD drive. You should then be able to select your external WD drive and install Leopard there.
My response to MartinR (I appreciate the dedication of the helpers)
I tried MartinR solution but it doesn't work. When I restart and keep "C" depressed, after a while, a kind of gray drape closes the screen and tells me I have to restart my computer par pressing "restart" for a few seconds. Then when the computer reboots, it tells me there was a problem and had to restart the computer with a report to Apple window.
I wonder if my computer is not defective? In 30 years, this is the only Apple computer that broke down on me (Always been faitful to Apple computers in spite of the fact they had little apps then), and twice on top of that. The first repair was done by Apple in Wellington Mall, Florida (hard drive had to be replaced); the second time was Northstar Computer in Sudbury, Ontario (optical drive had to replaced). Maybe that tells us something? Were replacement parts up to par? My computer seems to be working OK. I verified my HD with Disk Utility, and everything was OK.
My computer is an Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.06 GHz and 4 GB of ram.
My WD external drive is formatted as GUID Partition Table, and Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

baltwo wrote:
Can't recall which I used to do the dynamic repartitioning.
I'm betting that it was originally Partitioned with Snow Leopard.
As a test I just added a second Partition with Mountain Lion to a FireWire HD and it would not let me Install Snow Leopard from my System or Retail Disc into the Partition.

Need help in installing Snow Leopard without DVD drive

Hi,
I have a White Macbook 2008 model with 2.1 ghz processor and 1 GB Ram. The dvd rom is not working in my machine. It spits out the dvd's 99 out of 100 times.
I need to upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6. Apple has sent me a single disk to install snow leopard.
I am not willing to invest in new dvd drive either internal or external. Needed help on ways to install snow leopard please apart from using the dvd option.
I do have a Firewire 400 cable but i do not know anybody anymore who has a mac machine with 400 port.
Hence the cable is also useless and i cannot connect to anyother macbook and do the install using their drive.
Please suggest.
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Accidentally, eh? How, might I ask?
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1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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Hello!
I own a 13" MacBook Pro, which I bought in 2010 (I think it's the mid/late 2009 model). It came with Snow Leopard.
When Lion OS X was launched, I downloaded it, and have been using it since then. To be honest, I've not liked it at all because it's a lot slower, and I don't really like all of this resumé business. I've only kept it because with University, i've not had much time to downgrade back to Snow Leopard.
But basically, I've got the time this week, and tried to install Snow Leopard yesterday - I tried this by inserting my original disks which came with my MacBook Pro, restarting the Mac, then pressing Option (Alt) to bring up the start-up disk stuff, and wiping the hardrive.
Yet, after wiping the hardrive, after asking it to start the Snow Leopard disc as the start-up disk, it wouldn't. The Apple logo loaded, the little loading wheel thing underneath it did, and it just stayed like that for ages - you could hear the disk spinning, then after about 5-10 minutes, the screen went black and I had to turn the laptop off.
It kept doing this so because I wiped the hardrive, my only option was to go to the Recovery disk and re-install Lion.
I'm thinking there could be a problem with the disc drive, but it works fine if i'm burning CDs/DVDs, or install software and that. So what is it that's wrong? Am I doing something that's wrong?
There's nothing wrong with the MacBook Pro discs because when I put them in the laptop when I've got Lion, it loads and asks if I wish to install Snow Leopard - of course though, it won't let me.
Cheers.

See Kappy's post in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3272007

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Hi Donald,
No it doesn't erase anything by default, it does what we used to call an Archive and Install feature, which can give you a new OS, yet preserve your files and settings if you have enough room on your HD...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
But it does it automatically unless you specifically erase the Disk, but will replace Tiger completely for the OS & several Apple Apps like Safari, Mail, etc, yet preserve your old settings for those!
If you think you may need Tiger to run any APPs that do not work in SL/10.6, then clone or backup first.
I would recomend 2 things before installing though...
Make sure you have enough RAM & HD space.
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    * 5GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
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2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

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Always backup your important data before upgrading to a new Mac OS X.
Lion doesn't erase the drive but better to be safe than sorry.
And run Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities). Verify and if necessary repair the startup disk before upgrading.
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