![]() I bought an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter (1,090 baht - $29). The newer machine has Thunderbolt ports for fast data transfers. ![]() ![]() That was used with my previous MacBook Pro. The office disk uses USB, but the other disk has a Firewire cable. I use two disks to back up with Time Machine: one at work and one at home. I have information about this on my website in an A - Z List of System Preferences. A disk needs to use an OS X Extended (Journaled) partition and Time Machine is set up in System Preferences. The process took around 45 minutes in both cases. When the 15" Mac was returned with its new disk, I transferred all data (including what was created in the interim) back to the 15" machine. When a disk failed on a 15" MacBook Pro that was under warranty, I picked up a MacBook Pro 13" as a short-term replacement and used Apple's Time Machine to make the 13" Mac my new main machine. It took a burglary and the loss of a Mac with all my photographs for me to take backing up seriously. My teaching colleagues admit to backing up once a month, or less: maybe more when running a project. With all the work they put into classes and their projects, they risk losing all: either by theft, loss, hard disk failure or software problems. There is silence, then a slight giggle, then the class breaks into laughter. I ask if they have backed up their computers. I have one sure way to make my students laugh. Backing up on a Mac - External Hard Disks, Bangkok Post, Life
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