I Have an old imac G5 running 10.4.11 ppc, and I want to get rid of it, but I want to backup everything except system files and crap I don't need. I want to beck it up onto a sub drive
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iMac G5 power pc
You should be able to create a backup to USB2.0 drive of your content
from an older PPC Mac; the files could be read by applications or made
to be opened by later apps (or converted to future ones, if possible.)
The limits to USB rotational drives and/or flash USB had been related
to the inability of the OS X to boot older Macs from those drives. The
files themselves should be OK to be read from said drives.
You may need to be sure to choose 'ignore ownership' where applicable
on drives where old user accounts may stifle access to their content. Or
create a duplicate of those old files on another drive, convert as needed
to a more recent application. You can make a duplicate of the entire old
drive with a clone utility. SuperDuper, CarbonCopy, or Disk Utility can
make great duplicates. Disk Utility can make a disk image. Other apps
could be tried to see if you could save-as or convert to newer version.
Good luck! 🙂
Is there a way I can backup my entire iMac G5 to a usb drive(except system files)
