Does Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 have any inbuilt back up program (Like Windoz have one). My father is after some sort of one button back up / restore solution where he can back up and restore from external hard drive.
And I really don't want to pay extra money for a LaCie Drive when I can put together an external drive myself.
I know that there is Time Machine. However for that to work, you need to have double the hard drive space to back things up to.
Eg. iMac as 320Gb Hard Drive Space, therefore I need a 750Gb Hard Drive to back up to.
However I do see the advantage in time machine as it back up all your files including OS. However my father is a little turned off on the idea of having to out lay that sort of money when at really there is less that 60Gb of files that he really need to back up.
The other problem is that my father still refuses to let go of his old G4 Notebook computer with is still (barely) running OS 10.4. :rant: In all honesty, he does not need more than 1 computer :rant:
And I really don't want to pay extra money for a LaCie Drive when I can put together an external drive myself.
I know that there is Time Machine. However for that to work, you need to have double the hard drive space to back things up to.
Eg. iMac as 320Gb Hard Drive Space, therefore I need a 750Gb Hard Drive to back up to.
However I do see the advantage in time machine as it back up all your files including OS. However my father is a little turned off on the idea of having to out lay that sort of money when at really there is less that 60Gb of files that he really need to back up.
The other problem is that my father still refuses to let go of his old G4 Notebook computer with is still (barely) running OS 10.4. :rant: In all honesty, he does not need more than 1 computer :rant:
