whats preferred method of backing up my garageband song files?,iCloud,external hard drive?
any suggestions on backing up garageband song files?…iCloud,external hard drive???
Mac OS X (10.7.5)
As Neil mentioned in the previous post, use clone software to backup your entire drive. With a clone if you have any issues with the upgrade you can easily revert to previous install.
You will need an external drive.
USB 3.0 drives work on USB 2.0 but you do get 2.0 speed. They are cheaper because they are popular PC drives. If you get a new computer you'll get the bump to 3.0 speed. I don’t recommend FW. The newer computers don’t have FW ports. You would need a connector in order to use the drive on a newer computer.
Size: I recommend either the 2T or 3T drives. Often they are cheaper than a 1T drive.
Check the warranty when comparing. The longer the warranty the better the drive.
A clone is an exact bootable copy of your internal drive. Unlike standard copying of all files to another drive, the clone software copies hidden files along with other in-use files that are not available when you copy over files to another drive.
More info on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning
Time Machine is not bootable on older versions of OS X. You could only restore from Time Machine unless you have a newer Time Machine that is now includes a recovery drive that is bootable. .
Software used to Clone:
SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ -> free to do a first clone (erase and backup)