On May 1, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Carlos Nazario asked: > I have an iBook with a 6 gig HD that I want to back up on my LaCie 20 > gig USB HD. Each time I try to back it up it says a couple of > different things including that some things can't be copied. Is there > a easy way around this?
The way I do it is to get into the terminal and type sudo ditto --rsrc / /Volumes/name_of_USB_drive/directory_where_you_want_junk_kept It will prompt you for your password and copy everything, assuming you have administrative privileges. Some people also recommend the GUI programs Silverkeeper <http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/> Carbon Copy Cloner <http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
