Mac Question: Can you Mac experts out there, tell me how to back up files to a CD?

Question

I am very familiar with backup procedures on a pc. but I need to show someone how to back up some files on his hard drive to a CD. I believe the system he uses is a Mac OS 9, but I do not know whether or not he has any back up software, such as Roxio/ Easy and exact instructions will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi.

Thank you for the invitation.

As you might already know, backing up files helps you prevent the loss of important documents, applications, and other software.
You should back up important documents every day by copying the files to another disk (such as a floppy or Zip disk, a shared disk on a network, or an external hard disk).

You should also use a backup application to automatically back up the entire contents of your hard disk.

Reviews of popular Macintosh backup software products can be found on the Web at the Macworld and MacAddict Web sites, for example.

You can find more information about products for backing up your files in the Apple Macintosh Products Guide at guide.apple.com

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Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If he has a CD burner installed, there SHOULD also be software to support it already on his machine. You can test to see if there is by putting a blank CD-R into the CD drive and seeing what kind of dialog box pops up, or if the CD appears on the desktop. You should then be able to simply drag and drop the files onto the CD. Then you drag the CD into the trash (as if you were ejecting it). You'll get a message asking something like "do you want to burn this CD?"

I currently have Mac OS X on my machine at work, but we had OS 9 for a while and this was how it worked.

Answer 3

os9 supports cd burning in the finder
i'm not sure of the exact steps but there should be a help section in the tool bar where you can search for cd burning help