Macintosh Backups Just Became Easier
OS X is rock solid, it has so many new features that we've lost count of them, and you can backup individual files and folders states Craig Crossman host of the Computer America Radio Show
(PRWEB) August 28, 2004 -- Believe it or not, there still are Macintosh users
out there using the officially dead Mac OS 9 operating system. Ok, so maybe I
shouldn't be so incredulous about that. After all, there are people out there
still using Windows 98 and Windows ME too. Now I recognize the fact that some
legacy applications exist that you must have which just won't work using the
latest OS. Or the computer does exactly what it needs to do so why bother with a
costly hardware upgrade or new machine to run the newer operating system? I'll
give you those. And by the way, Mac OS 9 is "officially" dead because Apple
hasn't made a Macintosh that will start up in OS 9 for some time now. In fact,
the only way you can run OS 9 on any newer machine is in the OS X "Classic"
mode. But until recently there was one ability I sorely missed with Mac OS 9 and
that was the ease of making a backup.
To make a partial or total backup
in Mac OS 9, all you had to do was simply drag any file, folder or disk image
onto the image of another disk. The latter would copy the System folder that
contained everything it needed to make a bootable backup of the entire drive.
That all changed with OS X. Yes OS X is rock solid, it has so many new features
that we've lost count of them, and you can backup individual files and folders.
But you can't use OS X to make a total hard disk backup.
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Craig
Crossman is a Knight-Ridder newspaper columnist writing about computers and
technology. He also hosts the nation's longest running nationally syndicated
radio talk show on computers and technology, Computer America, heard on the
Business Talk Radio network weeknights at 10PM ET. In South Florida, you can
hear a rebroadcast of a selected Computer America show each Sunday evening at
8PM ET on WJNO 1290AM.
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