![]() This can be overridden by an experienced Mac Tech or Power User, but most thieves aren't that smart. This process removes the ability to erase or replace the hard drive as well as blocking booting from an alternate drive or the CD. There are alternative techniques as well. Not checking it will leave whatever is already on that drive intact. If you check Erase destination, the drive will have the same name and icon as your main drive as well. If it's a really big backup drive, you can alternatively create a disk image the same size as your main drive and use it for the Destination. Drag your main drive to the Source field and your Backup drive to the Destination field. Select your main drive and then the Restore tab. ![]() To do this, locate the Disk Utility program in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder and run it. Because it's an exact "Ghost" image, all of your Applications and their associated registration details are retained. This makes an exact and bootable copy of your entire hard drive. Another technique uses an external drive and Disk Utility. Well worth the $99US (as low as $70 on Amazon or eBay). iDisk was recently upgraded to 10GB of space. This can be kept in sinc with all of your Macs too! Backup will backup all of your Personal Settings to iDisk daily and follow a weekly regiment of backing up your other data to CD or DVD. Syncing with Dot Mac keeps a copy of all of your Bookmarks from Safari, Calanders from iCal, Contacts from Address Book, Keychains and Mail Account information on your iDisk. The simplest, and in my opinion the most worthwhile is to get a Dot Mac account and use the Sync feature along with Apple's Backup Utility. ![]() There are various techniques and levels that you can back up. I can't emphasize this strong enough! Back up your data! No mater what precautions you take, there's always the chance you won't get it back or if you do, the drive will be toast.
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