User`s manual

Connecting the External Drive
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Chapter 1: Introduction
The BounceBack software has been designed to quickly and easily back up your valuable
data and recover that data on an as-needed basis. You can even recover from a complete
hard drive failure with the Professional version. You can use your external FireWire or
USB drive to regularly back up your data or as an additional external storage device. You
can use a single external hard drive to back up several computers, simply by installing
the software on each computer.
The default backup for BounceBack installation is a full backup of the entire hard drive.
BounceBack Professional provides an identical copy of your entire source hard drive;
everything (the operating system, applications, and data), is backed up.
System Requirements
Your system must meet the minimum requirements below:
Mac OS X System Requirements
! Macintosh computer (PowerPC G3/G4/G5 processor or Intel Core Duo/Solo) with built-in
FireWire or USB
! 128MB of RAM (256MB or more recommended)
! Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
! Supported FireWire, USB or secondary internal hard disk drive, partitioned and
formatted under Mac OS X as Mac OS Extended format
Mac OS X Special Requirements
! External FireWire drives used on a PowerBook G3 may require the Apple PowerBook
Firmware Update 2.7 or later.
! The built-in FireWire ports on the original Blue and White PowerMac G3 may not work
reliably (added PCI FireWire ports allow backups but the Mac cannot be booted from the
FireWire drive).
! The original PowerBook G3 with FireWire ports may not be able to start up from the
FireWire drive (it is possible to swap the drive from the FireWire case into the
PowerBook for disaster recovery).
! Bootable backups require you to install BounceBack Professional on the system you will
be backing up. Bootable backups ensure disaster recovery.
! Only the user that installed BounceBack may use it. An Uninstall should be run before
reinstalling for a different user.