There’s been a good lull of about 3 months or so since Nathan at the Woodlands of Houston Apple Store replaced the hard drive in my Power Book G4, and I’ve started getting nervous about it having an ‘accident’ again.

It was only a bad sector, in a single song, but it was enough to jack up my preferred method of backing up, which is to use the disk utility software after booting off the OS Install disc. Generally this is a pretty good way to get a complete image of your drive, every few weeks or so.

Anyway, now that my wife Meredith has her own MacBook I figured it was time to start a proper backup regime. A search on Google revealed a piece of software called SuperDuper.

SuperDuper installed in the usual drag and drop fashion and I was up and running with a backup after about an hour or so. I prefer to do full backups to an external drive, and a 60 Gig HD in the MacBook allows you to partition an external 250 Gig WD drive into four parts, allowing a nice rotation of backups.

I use the same model of WD external hard drive with my PowerBook, but partitioned into only three separate drives.