Backing-Up Files

[hacksaw]

Hello,

I am due to reformat my Desktop and do a clean install. Can anyone teach me how to back-up several stuff like:
a) Mails (Inbox, Outbox and Sent plus its settings)
b) Safari bookmarked sites
c) network settings (DHCP)

I can do all this by copying to my other station (another PowerMac) via network.

After the clean install, how do I copy (re-install) them back?

TIA

~hacksaw

[Polar Mac]

well if i were you you.. just do a complete backup of your system... that way you won't have to be listing down/guessing the programs/data you need. if you go to versiontracker.com and type in the search box carbon copy cloner just back up the whole system.... that way when you reformat and then restore, no drastic changes have been made on the data and programs that your use to having. Good luck!

[hacksaw]

Thanks for the suggestion Polar Mac but as I said, I want a clean install. If I carbon copy my HD then that defeats the purpose. I am trying to get rid of a corrupted data which I cant zero in. I have tried doing the mail backup before and I just can't recall how I did it.
Oh and yeah, I carbon copy cloned the other partition of my HD, thanks.

Anymore suggestions?

~hacksaw

[Polar Mac]

Originally posted by hacksaw
Thanks for the suggestion Polar Mac but as I said, I want a clean install. If I carbon copy my HD then that defeats the purpose. I am trying to get rid of a corrupted data which I cant zero in. I have tried doing the mail backup before and I just can't recall how I did it.
Oh and yeah, I carbon copy cloned the other partition of my HD, thanks.

Anymore suggestions?

~hacksaw

well that is a problem, especially if you can't really zero in on the corrupted data.... im fresh out of ideas... sorry :wound:

[marvinp]

Originally posted by hacksaw
a) Mails (Inbox, Outbox and Sent plus its settings)
b) Safari bookmarked sites
c) network settings (DHCP)

a) Home > Library > Mail (folder)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist
Home > Library > Application Support > AddressBook (folder)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.AddressBook.plist

b) Home > Library > Safari (folder)

[theweatherman]

Carbon Cloner works fine although my last two clones ended with a not properly working system.
If you have a .Mac account, you can use Apple's Backup.
This is what I did with my last similar back-up.

-I made a back up of my System using Backup and saved it in another drive.

-Erased the drive, installed the System and then installed Backup and put in my .Mac settings

-Made a back-up of the fresh System using the same name as my original back-up, and saved it on the same drive as my first back-up (I renamed the original back-up so as not to overwrite it).

-Then thrashed the fresh system back-up and renamed my original back-up and used the restore function of Backup to put all the Mail, preferences, and all other files.

Backup asks you to find the back-up file, but because I saved it in the same path as its most recent back-up, Backup will it see it as the same valid file and will restore it properly.

Hope this helps, you can download Backup even if you don't have a .Mac account except, the app looks for your .Mac setting and quits if it does not find any.
The good thing about Backup is it allows you to choose whic files to back-up within a folder.

[Edited on 10-27-2004 by theweatherman]

[hacksaw]

Okay thanks for the tips guys.

~hacksaw

[longbeard]

Originally posted by theweatherman
Carbon Cloner works fine although my last two clones ended with a not properly working system.
If you have a .Mac account, you can use Apple's Backup.
This is what I did with my last similar back-up.

-I made a back up of my System using Backup and saved it in another drive.

-Erased the drive, installed the System and then installed Backup and put in my .Mac settings

-Made a back-up of the fresh System using the same name as my original back-up, and saved it on the same drive as my first back-up (I renamed the original back-up so as not to overwrite it).

-Then thrashed the fresh system back-up and renamed my original back-up and used the restore function of Backup to put all the Mail, preferences, and all other files.

Backup asks you to find the back-up file, but because I saved it in the same path as its most recent back-up, Backup will it see it as the same valid file and will restore it properly.

Hope this helps, you can download Backup even if you don't have a .Mac account except, the app looks for your .Mac setting and quits if it does not find any.
The good thing about Backup is it allows you to choose whic files to back-up within a folder.

[Edited on 10-27-2004 by theweatherman]

You mean your last two clones did not boot up but you still got the data?