Backup your iDisk to CD using Apple's Backup

Feb 17, '04 10:02:00AM

Contributed by: dhovis

If you are a .Mac subscriber, you know that Apple's Backup utility will allow you to back up data to your iDisk. However, if you've ever tried to back up your iDisk to a CD, you'll find that Backup will tell you that it cannot backup remote volumes.

Well, under Panther, it is now possible to back up your iDisk if you have automatic syncronization on. To do so, tell Backup you want to add a new item to backup. Navigate to ~/Library -> Mirrors -> SOMETHINGRANDOM -> YOUR_.MAC_USERNAME.dmg. Backup will happily burn this file to a CD, and you will have a complete backup of everything on your iDisk. Backup will remember the location in the future, so you only have to do this once.

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