ssprod Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 After 86 hours of frustration and high blood pressure, my 10.6.2 Atom Installation is finally working. With a plethera of kexts, custom dsdt's, and custom plists, what is the best method to back my system up, so I can build a clone system using the same components? Thanks. ssprod Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202505-creating-a-perfect-restore-dvd-from-custom-build/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey1790 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Download a linux distro like ubuntu. Use Unetbootin to put it on a USB. Boot into the USB with both your hard drives plugged in. Open the terminal. type ' sudo -s ' press enter as there is no password. now type ' fdisk -l ' , that will list all the drive locations plugged into your computer. Make sure your drives are unmounted, so run umount /dev/sdb1 (or whatever partition is mounted according to fdisk) Now run dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc /dev/sdb is the drive you want to backup, so make sure you grab the correct value from fdisk. /dev/sdc is the target drive you want to make the image to. ****MAKE SURE YOU GET THE VALUES RIGHT AS YOU CAN REMOVE ALL YOUR HARD WORK****!!!! Press enter, and wait awhile. It will backup the image byte by byte, there is no progress display so be patient. If you want to backup the image as a gz run this: dd if=/dev/sdb bs=32M | gzip -5 > /path/to/dump.img.gz Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202505-creating-a-perfect-restore-dvd-from-custom-build/#findComment-1360541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssprod Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Help indeed! Thanks very much jeffrey1790. Will try. Download a linux distro like ubuntu. Use Unetbootin to put it on a USB. Boot into the USB with both your hard drives plugged in. Open the terminal. type ' sudo -s ' press enter as there is no password. now type ' fdisk -l ' , that will list all the drive locations plugged into your computer. Make sure your drives are unmounted, so run umount /dev/sdb1 (or whatever partition is mounted according to fdisk) Now run dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc /dev/sdb is the drive you want to backup, so make sure you grab the correct value from fdisk. /dev/sdc is the target drive you want to make the image to. ****MAKE SURE YOU GET THE VALUES RIGHT AS YOU CAN REMOVE ALL YOUR HARD WORK****!!!! Press enter, and wait awhile. It will backup the image byte by byte, there is no progress display so be patient. If you want to backup the image as a gz run this: dd if=/dev/sdb bs=32M | gzip -5 > /path/to/dump.img.gz Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202505-creating-a-perfect-restore-dvd-from-custom-build/#findComment-1360618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey1790 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 oops forgot to tell you howto restore the gz image gunzip -c dump.img.gz | dd of=/path/to/hdd bs=32M Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202505-creating-a-perfect-restore-dvd-from-custom-build/#findComment-1360668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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