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20030718 Friday July 18, 2003

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. Posted in Mac OS X at Jul 18 2003, 09:27:29 AM MDT 2 Comments

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I am pretty sure you cannot use Apple's "Backup" program that comes with .Mac to backup to a network drive. That program really sucks (it is probably one of the worst Apple apps I have seen). It also requires you have a .Mac account to even run it. You can backup to a CD or DVD though and seems to work pretty well.

Posted by Kurt on July 18, 2003 at 01:26 PM MDT #

Can someone define "(...) expand out the image onto the notebook's drive, (...)"!?!?! I've had to screw with all kinds of wierd stuff to do complete disk transfers. A.

Posted by Adam Sherman on July 18, 2003 at 03:04 PM MDT #

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