Macoso Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Hi there Anyone can help my, step by step, how to make an image of my tiger with actual configuration, to restore in case of damage¿? TIA Dave Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikemad Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 you can use Norton Ghost. it works...simple Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-123810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 or you can use Acronis True Image. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-123813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 hi colonels, hi Mikemad, honestly, has either of you ever successfully revived a partition with OS x86 recovering with Ghost or Acronis from an image of these programs? Do they really even restore the HFS+ filesystem, and has Tiger really been booting afterwards ?? Thanks, Bugs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-123983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 hi colonels, hi Mikemad, honestly, has either of you ever successfully revived a partition with OS x86 recovering with Ghost or Acronis from an image of these programs? Do they really even restore the HFS+ filesystem, and has Tiger really been booting afterwards ?? Thanks, Bugs. Acronis will restore your back-up copy no problem even with hfs. EDIT: You can also use RsyncX to back-up your system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-123988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 cool, thanks a lot. Do you have any clue if such an Image is mountable in Windows (with an Image launcher from Acronis?), and if the data on the mounted image can be accessed via MacDrive? That works with lots of Mac .iso or dmg images mounted via DaemonTools, so one could even choose which files to extract (that would be neat) ! BTW, this thread contains some information, too. [EDIT] Thanks for the Link to RsyncX. You know what would be cool? An emergency boot CD/ DVD with the hacked mach Kernel, and all the neat tools for OX X on it (like the 911 boot CD, just for OS x86) .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-123990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macoso Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 Thanks to all I will test and I report my results. Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-124631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 So here's my report: 1) backing up: Both Win-Apps, Ghost 10 and TrueImage 9.1, do their job. TI is faster (20 instead 30 minutes for backing up). Also when doubleclicking the backup TI instantly gives me the choice to recover from that image. Ghost instead opens the Ghost Explorer but cannot explore the HFS-image. However, one Ghost test image was about 8% smaller than the one from TI. With another testrun the Acronis image was 1% smaller. Ghost memorizes the backup, so next time one can simply click on "Mac OS x86 backup" (or whatever you called it), and off Ghost goes .. 2) restoring: What does NOT work with either of the two tested win apps is decreasing the target partition in size .., but restoring to the same partition works with both programs. TI refused to back up its image onto a different size partiton. Norton did not have a problem with that. Also I can change Ghost's process priority on-the-fly. All in all I grant Norton Ghost 10 the winner medal ! What to heed: 1) There are two really important things to do in Mac OS before backing up: a) you need to disable jounaling for the Mac volume you are about to backup !!! Otherwise your backup images will be bloated up to pretty much the size of the volume even if it is 99% empty .. . There is many ways to disable jounaling (e.g. with Terminal). But if you prefer a graphical tool I suggest you use Cocktail: - if it says "Enable" you are fine - if it says "Disable" click on "Disable". If Cocktail gives you an error message, don't worry - quit Cocktail [to decide if you want to switch jounaling back on after backing up please do some googling - it depends on what you use your computer for] b] open Disk Utility, choose the drive you want to backup, click onto the button 'Erase', check 'Erase free space', leave first option 'zero ...', click OK. Otherwise the archives from Ghost and TI become bigger than they need to be .. 2) When backing up in Windows: in either of the two apps go into advanced options when you are clicking through the backup routine and check "high or maximum compression" Good Luck !! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-139996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Make bootable clone with RSyncX this might be the easiest and most relieable method for doing a backup from within Mac OS x86 until Apple fixes the drag&restore error with Disk Utility from the Intel install DVDs. I copied this tutorial from hackint0sh.org - all credits for this (apart from one little addition from me) go to skr3dii !! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok folks, here is a tut' every hackintosh dude should follow to avoid reinstall the all stuff when something messed up ur hackintosh install and you can't boot it anymore. What we are going to do is setup a bootable clone of your startup partition on another backup partition. First, get the software, it's just a GUI to enable easy backups with the tiger out-of-the-box command-line utility rsync. http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html Setup a backup partition to hold ur bootable clone. Be sure that 'Ignore ownership on this volume' is not checked. You can verify it by right-click on your backup partition, Get Info, then expand ownership and Permissions. Now fire up the RSyncX prog, it's under Applications->Utility Supposing that ur startup partition is called hackintosh-1 and your backup partition is called hackintosh-2, apply the following settings: Fire the synchronise button. After a while ur bootable clone should be done. Please try to boot ur clone to test it. Just press F8 at boot and select ur backup partition. To update ur clone, apply the same setup, but instead of 'Archive', select Update, so it will only copy the files that have changed. It's much faster than doing a complete archive again. Now you have no more excuses not to test a new patch or ppf. Enjoy! You want more, have a look at RSyncX forums : http://xnews.soad.umich.edu/RsyncX_Forums Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-150024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerD004 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 And how do you restore once your hackintosh cannot boot to open the program? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18910-build-os-image/#findComment-944804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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