What is the best way to back up my 12" Powerbook G4?

September 30th, 2009 | by admin |

I have a PowerBook G4 12" (1.5 GHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB Memory, 80G Hard Drive). I’ve used about 70G of my Hard Drive (Mostly Pics, Music, and Movies). I have a combo drive (CD-burner). If I back up to an external Hard Drive, how will this affect my libraries (itunes/iPhoto)? Can I run my programs (itunes, iPhoto) off an external HD? Do I need software? I do have 2 extra PC desktops with 40-60G of hard drive space, am I able to use that as an external HD? Please share your experiences, advice and possibilities that you would recommend. Thanks.

The easiest way to back up your data would be to back up onto an external drive using backup software like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your internal drive. To use iTunes on an external drive, the drive must be bootable. SD and CCC can make your external drive bootable, just make sure it has firewire ports and preferably has Oxford chipsets.
You can use the drives that are on PC as back up drives only if you remove them from the PC and install them on an external drive enclosure and format them as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050826082347522
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html

  1. 3 Responses to “What is the best way to back up my 12" Powerbook G4?”

  2. By Killer Spike on Oct 1, 2009 | Reply

    This is how I did it:

    I got a 250GB Western Digital Firewire HD and did a full back-up of my PowerBook 2000 (Pismo) which has a 40GB HD installed. Then I made a new library for my iTunes to read all my music, videos, etc… from that drive since when I travel I always keep my iPod with me anyway. At home I just start up iTunes from the external and I now have 15GB of free space on my Pismo. The software I use for the back-up is SuperDuper and it will also configure your external as a boot disc just in case something does happen to your internal drive.

    Hope this helps you to decide what you’re going to do.
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  3. By rawroyram on Oct 1, 2009 | Reply

    starting from the top. if you backup to an external hard drive, it will affect your music/photo libraries within application such as itunes. the player wont find the paths anymore. what you can you is after moving the documents to your external drive, delete the songs in your library and then add them afresh from your ext drive.but note when you move the folder such as the music folder, move the whole folder together not individual files cos some files are downloaded by your player such as thumbnails and licences so you dont loose them cos they are usually hidden syst files. also moving the whole my music folder will help you retain your playlists.when adding the music, choose add folfder option and just select my music. you get your playlists without stress. you dont need any software for this though there are software available (they’ll only use space on your your system which you are trying to free space from not to talk of ram. you cant use a whole pc as an external HD but if the systems are online (such as LAN) you can move then to a folder on the system and be accessing them from there but you’ll need to have both systems on to use your music files. alternatively if you dont need the system, you can remove the hard disks in them and get an external HD adapter. its available for PC and laptop HD’s. hope it helps…
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  4. By ISBN51499 on Oct 1, 2009 | Reply

    The easiest way to back up your data would be to back up onto an external drive using backup software like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your internal drive. To use iTunes on an external drive, the drive must be bootable. SD and CCC can make your external drive bootable, just make sure it has firewire ports and preferably has Oxford chipsets.
    You can use the drives that are on PC as back up drives only if you remove them from the PC and install them on an external drive enclosure and format them as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
    http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050826082347522
    http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
    References :

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