Mac users?

[joflake]

How do you back up your Mac? I was going to buy an external hard drive to back up my mac and my ipad. Is that necessary or do you use something else? I need that to use Time Machine, correct?

Still trying to learn all this stuff.

[Dani]

time machine to an external hard drive.

[joflake]

What brand do you have Dani? I looked at some yesterday, but almost all of them had to be reformatted for macs. There was one that was for a mac, but I didn't recognize the brand name, so wasn't sure about it.

[kaisdad]

I use time machine and backup to an external drive. All my external drives are made by Lacie and I've had no problems with them.

[bett]

I have an external hard drive as well as time machine.

[HeySquirt]

Most of my external are Western Digital and I've been happy with them.
Time machine is the easiest way to back up no fuss.
I don't buy the Mac formatted since they charge more for them, I just reformat it's not that hard.

I actually use a desktop extrnal that is always plugged in. (got a good deal on it). Then I usually keep my photos and super important stuff on a portable.

If you back up the ipad to itunes it will them automatically be backed up with Time machine.

[Dani]

Lacie.

[joflake]

Thanks everybody. I think I know what to do!