Select two way mirror to store two copies of your data across the drives or select three way mirror to store three copies of your data across the drives.
Mirror two external hard drives mac.
Double click on disk utility to open it.
If your files take up a lot of space you will want to use a separate external drive for your mirror drive rather than partitioning your existing hard drive.
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Select parity to be protected from a single drive failure and have more space but remember that a parity space is noticeably slower than the other options here.
How to prepare your external drive to use for your clone.
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Use spotlight to search for the disk utility app.
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You ll need to start with a clean external hard drive in order to make a bootable drive for your cloned backup.
Usually a mirror setup contains two hard.
By mirroring your entire mac s hard drive to an external firewire drive you can boot from that disk using any other mac and have your entire system at your fingertips no tedious software.
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Connect your external drive into the appropriate port on your mac.