FINALLY! How to back up your OSX86 installation--AND BOOT IT!

[Braddman]

OK after trying this 1 billion times....I SUCCESSFULLY backed up my OSX86 installation to another drive, then booted off of that drive. I tried everything on this forum, and nothing worked until now. Here is how you do it (sticky maybe?? This information is real hard to find.)

There, of course, might be an easier way, or better way, but this worked for me with little effort.

 

What you'll need:

 

Iatkos 10.5.7 Install DVD (you may be able to use just Chameleon 2.0 but this is SUPER simple with the IATKOS DVD.)

 

 

1) Erase your backup drive using Disk Utility, Mac Journaled.

2) Click either the drive you're backing up, or the drive you're backing up to.

3) Click RESTORE

4) Drag the partition (not the whole disk) of the one you're backing up into SOURCE and the one you're writing to into DESTINATION, these windows are located below the RESTORE tab,

5) Wait about 30 mins while it copies the image. (NOTE! THIS BACKUP WILL NOT BOOT! YOU HAVE TO INSTALL CHAMELEON ON TO THIS TO BOOT IT.)

6) Reboot to the IATKOS 10.5.7 DVD.

7) At the top go to the utilities menu and choose disk utility.

8) Find the disk ID of your disk you are installing Chameleon 2.0 on to. (highlight the disk and press the info button, mine was disk3s2)

9) Close disk utility, open up Chameleon 2.0 installer located on the same menu.

10) Follow directions. It first asks for the disk number (3 in my case) then the partition number (2 in my case) then it does it's thing.

11) If you have any issues or errors try ejecting the target disk with disk utility before you install Chameleon.

 

That's it. After 50 different tries (Carbon copy cloner, super duper, ghost, terminal, osx86tools, etc) I finally had a working, bootable backup with Chameleon 2.0 installed on it. The proof is in the pudding, I am typing this from the backup.

 

Please feel free to add comments, help, corrections, anything that might help!