Backup your Powerbook on your iPod
Did you know you can install OS X on your iPod and use it as your hard drive? Makes me wish I'd bought the 30 GB version.
backing up and restoring on my box were really simple. i plugged in my 30GB ipod and installed os x on it (which went smoothly, i just selected it as the drive to install to when the installer asked me). then with a few points and clicks, i got disk copy to create an image of my powerbook's drive and save it to my ipod. click, click, reboot while holding down "T" (to boot firewire target mode) -- instead of your laptop's drive whirring you'll hear the ipod happily clicking away. perfect. when booted, format your laptop's drive, then expand out the image onto the notebook's drive, and voila.
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Good to know - now if I could just figure out how to use Apple's "Backup" program to backup to a network drive.