my question is i have 2 profiles, one for me and one for my wife. When doing the backup to time machine, does the backup backup everything on the disk (including both profiles)?
will an upgrade of OS mountain cover both profiles?
Upgrading to Mountain Lion will not erase the drive.
Be sure each of you backs up first to be sure you have current backups of your separate accounts.
so, log into my profile and then hook up time machine. when backup is finished, log onto my wife's profile and hook time machine up to her profile...is this correct? Sorry, new to the backup process of mac's.
Yes, that's correct. If you don't have sufficient disk space, then you may have to restrict what you backup to just the Home folders (what you call a "profile.") If you want another suggestion rather than using Time Machine make a bootable backup of the HDD to the backup drive using Disk Utility.
Be sure you erase the backup drive before doing the following:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source
entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
This backup is a basic file by file backup. All files are accessible. You can boot the computer from the backup drive should you need to.
upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion
