Backing up in Tiger

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Is there an easy was of Backing up my Mac when using Tiger to a USB HD. I know that Time Capsule does this in Leopard but is there an alternative for Tiger. MAybe a command that I can type into the terminal or something?

Or do I just have to copy and paste loads of files over manually.

Talisman

Are you looking to make a bootable clone of "Macintosh HD" or just backup something like the home folder?

Super Duper costs €20 and will make a bootable backup of your hard drive.

You can use Disk Utility which comes as part of OS X (Applications\Utilities) to make a disk image (.DMG) file of a folder. It can also be used to make a backup of the entire drive to a disk image on an external drive. The disk image can later be restored to your hard drive by booting from the install disc and having the external drive connected. However this does not always restore the correct file attributes and files and folders which should be hidden may not be so on the restored drive.

muggyog

If you want a command line backup you are probably looking for Ditto.

Depending on what you want to back up there are plenty of options.

Mike Bombich has a useful free utility called Carbon Copy Cloner Carbon Copy Cloner which, as its name suggests, clones your Mac. He gives advice on how its done, here.

Problem with a lot of cloning commands is that you have to create a 'shadow' file the same size as your data so you need twice the space available.

pvik00

You can stick with the good old Apple-supplied Disk Utility.
Does the job for free and you have it already.