What is the best way to backup an external hard drive full of photos and videos to another external hard drive?

What is the best way to backup an external hard drive full of photos and videos to another external hard drive? I want an exact clone -

Drag and Drop? Time Machine?

Thanks. db


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Posted on Apr 3, 2016 11:56 AM

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Aug 5, 2016 5:12 PM in response to sandrashriver

Purchase a good quality hard drive from here.


https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB


OR

External SSD


https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/eSATA-FW800-FW400-USB

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go


OR


if your Mac has a Thunderbolt port.


https://eshop.macsales.com/Search/?Ntk=Primary&N2=100103&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne= 5000&N=100103&Ntt=thunderbolt+SSD


https://eshop.macsales.com/search/thunderbolt+bus-powered



Format any of these drives, using OS X Disk Utility, as an OS X extended format (journaled) with GUID partition scheme.

And purchase and learn to use Bombich Software's CarbonCopyCloner to make an exact, OS X bootable clone to the external drive of your choice.


http://bombich.com/


I have used this data cloning app for over a decade and have multiple cloned backups with different versions of OS X on three different, large capacity external hard drives.


Good Luck!

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