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Making a MBP back-up (before a fresh install)

 
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Mar 15, 2011 09:43 |  #1

Hey guys,

I want to do a clean install of my OS X on my MBP because I have way too much junk on here, so I'm backing up a lot of stuff right now. I was wondering if you could maybe help me so I don't overlook anything. I've organized all my files in their corresponding folders (eg. the standardized 'pictures', 'movies' etc. folders).
Right now I'm making a back-up of:
- Documents (files for school, projects, excel documents etc.)
- Pictures, pretty self explanatory
- Movies, ibidem.
- Music, idem.
- Ski, my folder with ski movies (55gb :) ), not a chance in hell I'm losing that!

I'm just thinking if there's other things I should back-up. All my applications I'll just re-install, so that's not a problem. It's just that there's some folders I don't exactly know of what they do:
- Library, the one in my users folder (Macintosh HD -> Users -> My user -> Library)
- Library, the one on the Macintosh HD (the home hard drive)
- System, I reckon this is just the folder containing the OS?

I don't wanna make a time machine back-up because the sole purpose of this reset is getting rid of a lot of stuff!
Any things I'm forgetting?
Thanks in advance,

Regards from Holland!

EDIT:
I don't think it's worth making a new topic about this, but I need to know what kind of SATA-port my early 2010 13" MBP has. Sata 300 or 600? I wanna buy an SSD, and if my MBP supports Sata 600, I reckon it'd be good paying a little extra for that, init?


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Mar 16, 2011 04:05 |  #2

Don't backup anything outside the user folder. There's no point backing up the Library (any of them).

Your laptop only supports 3Gb/s.




  
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Mar 16, 2011 17:00 |  #3

toxic wrote in post #12029687 (external link)
Don't backup anything outside the user folder. There's no point backing up the Library (any of them).

Your laptop only supports 3Gb/s.

Ok, and 3gb/s would mean sata-300 right?


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