TITLE
    Hard Drive: Options for Backing Up Contents
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7/31/98
11/7/00

TOPIC

    Suggestions on how to back up your hard disk.


DISCUSSION

    There are three options for performing a back up of your hard disk: a locally connected USB or FireWire storage device, a network backup server or storage device, or an Internet based back up service.

    Locally Connected Storage Device
    Recent desktop and portable computers from Apple feature Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire ports that make it easy to attach high capacity mass-storage devices that are ideal for backing up the larger hard disk installed.

    As an alternative to backing up to floppy disks, the following USB options are available:
    • the USB SyQuest SparQ disk holds up to 1 GB
    • the USB Imation SuperDisk holds up to 120 MB
    • the USB Iomega Zip disks holds up to 250 MB
    • the FireWire VST Technologies hard drive has capacities starting at 10 GB

    To see some of the USB storage devices, and other USB devices, refer to: http://www.apple.com/usb

    Network Backup Server
    If you're connected to a network, you can use products such as Retrospect from Dantz Development to back up your files to a large volume on the network, a DAT drive, or some other media. To read about Retrospect : http://www.dantz.com

    Internet Back Up Service
    There are several back up resources on the Internet, including Apple's iDisk, that you can use to back up files on your hard drive.

    Note: Some Internet backup solutions have less disk space than the removable media mentioned earlier in the article. iDisk has a 20 MB limit, so check with the back up solution vendor for space limitations and select the one that matches your data back up needs.

Document Information
Product Area: iMac
Category: iMac Hardware
Sub Category: General Topics

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