Caddish Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hello I finally managed to have video with QE/CI and sound working + 10.5.7 and everything boot without issue so I would like to backup my OS X partition to a ntfs partition so that if something goes wrong I can restore it. Â Any software recommended ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddish Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 I used norton ghost 11.5 but I still have not tried to restore my image hopefully it will work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
boba899 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 SuperDuper! is a really good disk backup system. Carbon Copy Cloner is another one. Each one can create full disk image backups of your system that Disk Utility can restore from incase something goes wrong. Â However.. Firstly you'll have to think of a way to get these disk images, once they're made, on to your NTFS partition (something like MacFUSE should do the job nicely) Â The big problem after that is that I don't *think* that Disk Utility, when booted from an install DVD, will mount NTFS partitions. So if something does go wrong, you can't just boot Disk Utility from an install DVD and restore your image. Â Saying that, I'm not 100% that Disk Utility doesn't mount them; boot an install dvd and see. Â If it doesn't mount NTFS partitions, I'd recommend an external hard drive with an HFS+ partition. I have a ~200GB partition with OS X on it, but it's only got ~50GB full. So what I do is use SuperDuper! to create a full backup image, and put that image on to an external HFS+ partition. I use the same partition for my Time Machine backups. This is risky though because if your Time Machine partition fails, you've lost two backups. Â A bit rambly, but hopefully that helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Transmac, macfuse, macdrive, NFTS-3G, Paragon NTFS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddish Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 SuperDuper! is a really good disk backup system. Carbon Copy Cloner is another one. Each one can create full disk image backups of your system that Disk Utility can restore from incase something goes wrong. However.. Firstly you'll have to think of a way to get these disk images, once they're made, on to your NTFS partition (something like MacFUSE should do the job nicely)  The big problem after that is that I don't *think* that Disk Utility, when booted from an install DVD, will mount NTFS partitions. So if something does go wrong, you can't just boot Disk Utility from an install DVD and restore your image.  Saying that, I'm not 100% that Disk Utility doesn't mount them; boot an install dvd and see.  If it doesn't mount NTFS partitions, I'd recommend an external hard drive with an HFS+ partition. I have a ~200GB partition with OS X on it, but it's only got ~50GB full. So what I do is use SuperDuper! to create a full backup image, and put that image on to an external HFS+ partition. I use the same partition for my Time Machine backups. This is risky though because if your Time Machine partition fails, you've lost two backups.  A bit rambly, but hopefully that helps. Thanks for the reply Superduper and carbon copy can't write to ntfs partition even with ntfs-3g. Disk utility can but it can't backup the partition I' m curently using and if I run it from the live-cd ntfs-3g is not installed same probleme for restoring with disk utility.  The external is a good idea but I'm unimployed so maybe later (job interview tomorrow :D:D)  Transmac, macfuse, macdrive, NFTS-3G, Paragon NTFS. Any of those would be able to write to a ntfs partition from the live-cd or the osx partition to backup ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 what i did last year was using aronis true image for backing up my osx partition bit by bit. upon restore it even booted, so i guess the bootloader was transfered as well. Â there was no need for a running osx system, acronis even had a bootable dvd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddish Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 Northon ghost 11.5 did a bit by bit too with high compression it did a 10gb file of my 22gb partition in 30min. Fine for me. I have acronis too maybe I'll try it if you managed to restore and have it bootable Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimutz Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I can confirm that Acronis does it! Backup and restore. But it only works with MBR partitioned HDs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1168418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umneycreep Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 check out the Paragon Snapshot beta ... it might be what you're looking for.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1185146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toldor Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Hello I finally managed to have video with QE/CI and sound working + 10.5.7 and everything boot without issue so I would like to backup my OS X partition to a ntfs partition so that if something goes wrong I can restore it. Any software recommended ?  why not just using time machine? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168489-backup-os-x-partition-to-ntfs-partition/#findComment-1185226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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