archive and install for Tiger ?
Hello,
My external harddrive is busted, so I'm out of luck trying to do backups. If I choose Archive and Install in Tiger (Im running 10.3.8 ) will it archive my users folders as well ? Ive never used this option before, as I usually backs up everthing and then do a clean instal after a format.
What I'm wondering is does it keep:
/Users/usernameX
/Applications
/Library/
/Users/usernameX/Library
/usr/local - I know, far fetched one
How about the users emails ? I know they are stores in ~/Library/Mail but are they automatically transferred over ?
And how about the ~/.bash_profile and such files ?
edited for spelling
My external harddrive is busted, so I'm out of luck trying to do backups. If I choose Archive and Install in Tiger (Im running 10.3.8 ) will it archive my users folders as well ? Ive never used this option before, as I usually backs up everthing and then do a clean instal after a format.
What I'm wondering is does it keep:
/Users/usernameX
/Applications
/Library/
/Users/usernameX/Library
/usr/local - I know, far fetched one

How about the users emails ? I know they are stores in ~/Library/Mail but are they automatically transferred over ?
And how about the ~/.bash_profile and such files ?
edited for spelling
Comments
I would highly suggest dishing out the money and getting a new external drive or at least backing up the really important stuff to disk