estebanrao Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Hello everyone... This might be a stupid question or a clever one... I really don't know yet... We all know that Installing Leopard on a PC is a mater of luck in certain cases and f*cking the system up it's really easy... so here's my problem... yesterday installing 10.5.3 update I was really scared cause the first time I tried I broke my system and I had to reinstall my hole system... So... imagine this happens again, if I have my machine bucked up with Time Machine and I reinstall the system can I Restore my hole system with the saved in Time Machine? If the answer is yes Time Machine is now more than useful... at least for me.... Or maybe there is another software I'm not aware of... to make this... is there any? for example I make a back up before making hard changes to my Hack and then in case something happens I only reinstall the system and Restore my previous installation. What are my possibilities here? Thanks a lot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_online Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Hello estebanrao, Time machine works perfectly fine (sort of). I'm currently using 10.5.1 and I successfully restored my system from a time machine back-up. Assuming u have your stuff backed up in time machine, here's how: 1. Reinstall your entire system (just like how you did a fresh install) 2. Once you're on the registration page and the migration assistant shows up, choose the option "from a Time Machine Backup" 3. Select the drive or volume storing your backed up data 4. Let it restore. This may take some time depending the size of the data you have backed up. 5. Once it has completed, everything should be back to how you first customized it. Only thing I've encountered so far with Time Machine is that, I would be getting an error message saying that the disk I'm trying to backup is already full and to choose another drive. The spare drive I have for my Time machine is 325gb and the data being backed up is less than 320gb. Well, there you go. Hope I was able to answer your query. Based on how I understand it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/#findComment-1028677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gawkersucks Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 You should also be able to boot from the install DVD and select Time Machine and restore from the menu. You need to restore the boot loader as well. One option that works really well for me is using an external (80 GB) HDD to experiment with for the large update and changes. I also use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup / restore the experimental drive. I currently have images for 10.5.2, 10.5.5 and 10.5.6. CCC is freeware btw. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/#findComment-1028792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartont Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Time Machine Blows. It really is not worth the hassle for a simple clone, or anything else for that matter. Not even on a real mac is it reliable. I do it all the time using Carbon Copy Cloner. Its mostly an rsync wrapper and works really well. To boot the cloned drive you will also need to install a boot loader. Link for Carbon Copy Cloner ... http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html Link for osx86tools (bootloader installer) ... http://######.com/osx86tools/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/#findComment-1029220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipG Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hello everyone... Or maybe there is another software I'm not aware of... to make this... is there any? for example I make a back up before making hard changes to my Hack and then in case something happens I only reinstall the system and Restore my previous installation. What are my possibilities here? Thanks a lot! I use a $30.00 product called SuperDuper! In addition to making a copy of your drive, it can compare the copy with the original and make incremental changes much faster than simply copying the whole drive. If you have a small test partition, say 25 GB, SD can make a "sandbox" copy of your drive, with links to your users area and/or applications. You can install test kexts, even a major update and if it doen't work, you just reboot into your production partition. If you want to save the changes, you can then backup the sandbox to the production system and you're back in business. --Skip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/#findComment-1030672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
limini Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 SuperDuper is great and I use it too; I never tried the sandbox thing and it is a good idea. But lately I've been using Paragon Rescue Kit. It's currently Free (beta) and it allows you to save the entire partition image to an external NTFS formatted USB drive, which TM and Super Duper don't. Plus it basically creates a whole image of the hard drive partition and then restores it. I've found it to be faster and more convenient than TM (the slowest BTW) or Super Duper because the bootloader gets hosed with both those programs, whereas this just restores the entire partition as it was. It's beta software, but I've successfully recovered my system with it twice now, after bad upgrade attempts. So while it may not be 100%, I haven't had any issues, though it's unclear when the beta period will end and if it has a lifespan, or how much the software will cost when released. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/#findComment-1031698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 TM is the only automated one. I found it a pita to manually back up my computers. It's fun only the first time. TM makes it so you don't have to think about backing up, too bad it's so flaky. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108926-back-up-just-in-case/#findComment-1032024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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