I just got a Lacie D2 250GB desktop hard drive.

Now planning to use it for backing up my Mac. Any "backup expert" out there to offer some advise?

Currently i setup 2 partitions, one is Mac file system and the other is MSDOS (10GB). The MSDOS is used as a medium to copy files from windows and later move to Mac.

I downloaded SuperDuper and thingking to backup my current MBP HD as a disk image and store it in the external hard drive.

Thanks.

yes i do,i use Backitymac to create a disk image with all my Home Folder dumped to my external HDD.If there is any problems,just restore the image using Backitymac

Backing up your whole HD is a good idea, although a bit too much for my purposes. I personally use Carbon Copy Cloner and try to do only the home directory.

i will make a new image of my mac and back it up in another media ( not tape drive laa ) ...later i will restore it into my new formatted mac

i backup at least once a month, sometimes twice a month... full image of the notebook hdd... can't afford to lose the data, in case the notebook crashes/gets stolen or sumthin.... currently using dantz retrospect, it came bundled with the maxtor external disk...

I use SuperDuper! and it provides a bootable copy. I've set it to perform scheduled incremental backups too: meaning it backups ONLY the files that have been changed.

SuperDuper! when used for incremental and scheduled backups is not free but it works very well.

haha...similar like netbackup ..rite ? differential vs incremental

:-)

Thanks for all the reply!

has anyone try to restore from a disk image? if the laptop hard disc is not bootable already and the image file is store in ur external hard drive.

I didnt do back up, because all the files save in my external HDD..

It all depends on how critical your data is. If you can afford to lose your files; by all means keep just one copy.

A reasonable backup strategy is to keep at least two copies of critical data on separate drives at separate locations.

Of course it is easier on a reinstall if your backups include a complete bootable copy of your entire Mac. This way you can revert to the backup should something go wrong with a software install for example. I keep a bootable copy of my MBP drive on a removable storage drive (FW800) which I bring around with me.

Critical data however is back-uped to the MacPro at home (which in turn is mirrored to a second backup drive on the same machine).

So at any one time; I have FOUR copies of data on TWO separate machines at TWO locations.

Have you ever thought what would happen if you lose your external HDD? Or something happens to your external HDD? Better backup man...