night_mare007 Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Hi... I found that after a very long time of fine tuning and massing A LOT with my snow - I want to have a solid, complete, clone backup, "Ghost" style image - so when doomsday arrive - It will be possible to restore that image that image which was stored in advanced on a NTFS partition. ( I have MBR file table on my HDD: only one HFS+ partition ( Snow OSX ) and the rest are NTFS partitions ) Everything sounds great, but in reality - we have a problem: In order to create the OSX clone - you cannot boot OSX's partition(because of permission issues), and must use snow's install cd for that. But when you load that cd, out-of-the-box you don't have NTFS WRITE permission. - SO HOW CAN YOU BACKUP THAT PRECIOUS PARTITION ?! Requirement: 1. SNOW INSTALL DISK + knowing how to boot to the actual install menu. 2. HDD SPACE ! - on your target NTFS partition have at list 80% free space of your current "Used" snow partition space. 3. TIME - booting the install disk from DVD is slow and backup process also slow ! (Approx 30~45 min.... ) How to BACKUP ? 1. Boot up your snow install disk, and arrive to the screen where you can enter "Utilities->Terminal" from the upper bar. 2. UNMOUNT your NTFS partition where you want to save the snow image to using the command: umount /Volume/YOUR_PARTITION_NAME 3. Make newdir under /Volume: mkdir /Volume/DESTINATION 4. Mount the same NTFS partiton from above with R/W Permissions: mount_ntfs -o rw /dev/diskXsY /Volume/DESTINATION **If you don't know your X&Y partition value you can run those 2 commands: 1. To view all current partitions: ls -l /dev/disk* 2. To view a partition details (name, size etc...) diskutill info /dev/diskXsY 5. exit terminal using command+Q or the upper command bar. 6. Enter "Disk utility" using the upper bar: "Utilities->Disk Utility" 7. At the left side of "Disk utility" choose your SNOW partition and press on the "New Image" button, then: - under "Saved as" enter the image name. - press the "down arrow" button the the right of the "saved as" line to view all your partitions. on this new opened section - select your DESTINATION partition as I covered above. (you can pick your favorite folder within that partition) - under "image format" pick "Compressed" - under "Encryption" make sure it's picked as "none" 8. click "Save" and WAIT. ( my ~15GB used snow partition space took me about 20-25 min to make that image copy. How to RESTORE ? 1. As above, load Snow install disk and load "Disk Utility". 2. From the partitions list choose your current massed-up/future-to-be Snow partition, and click on the "Erase" Tab. Then under Format Choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", write a name - then press "Erase..." button, twice. 3. Afterward, Click the "Restore" tab. - In the "Source" line click on "Image" and select your saved DMG IMAGE that you saved using the instruction above. - In "Destination" line drag&drop your new formatted "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" partition. - Leave the "Erase destination" checkbox at checked state. 4. Press Restore and WAIT. Now, you can live with serenity and peace - cuz that Frakingtosh ass is well preserve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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