Snnoooowwyyy Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Guys which is the best software to have a complete backup image of my Mac drive? Like there are norton ghost or acronis for windows...Which one should I use for Mac? Plz dont tell me TimeMachine will do the work..I want a backup which I can keep at a different place ..Like in condition if my Hard disk gets bad or if I have to format my drive....then I can easily restore the image to the new Hard disk to get a perfect Mac I had ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209503-backup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarf69 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Guys which is the best software to have a complete backup image of my Mac drive? Like there are norton ghost or acronis for windows...Which one should I use for Mac? Plz dont tell me TimeMachine will do the work..I want a backup which I can keep at a different place ..Like in condition if my Hard disk gets bad or if I have to format my drive....then I can easily restore the image to the new Hard disk to get a perfect Mac I had ... Hi, I would recommend either SuperDuper (free in full-disk copy or image mode/shareware) or Carbon Copy Cloner (free/donationware). Both can copy a full system (including user data) completely to either external volume or as a disk image to an external volume. CCC is using rsync engine and it can use an external rsync-equipped server for file copies. Mac OS X is preferred on the receiving end but it might work with a Linux if it has the same rsync version (just a wild guess). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209503-backup/#findComment-1398390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snnoooowwyyy Posted January 29, 2010 Author Share Posted January 29, 2010 Hi, I would recommend either SuperDuper (free in full-disk copy or image mode/shareware) or Carbon Copy Cloner (free/donationware). Both can copy a full system (including user data) completely to either external volume or as a disk image to an external volume. CCC is using rsync engine and it can use an external rsync-equipped server for file copies. Mac OS X is preferred on the receiving end but it might work with a Linux if it has the same rsync version (just a wild guess). Thnx .. Will try them out... BTW any other good alternatives..? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209503-backup/#findComment-1398700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 I believe, being as as Mac OS X is UNIX based, you should be able to use the DD terminal command to make a byte for byte copy of the disk to another disk. Not quite the elegant approach of Ghost or such, but functional non the less. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209503-backup/#findComment-1399280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snnoooowwyyy Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 I believe, being as as Mac OS X is UNIX based, you should be able to use the DD terminal command to make a byte for byte copy of the disk to another disk. Not quite the elegant approach of Ghost or such, but functional non the less. Thnx for the reply..But I'll prefer a software rather than using the terminal.. I have downloaded both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper..Gonna try them both.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209503-backup/#findComment-1399663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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