Questios about backup/cloning

[jerryn]

Hi,

 

Wow.. have you tried the Empire EFI hack? It's pretty straight forward. I installed 10.6.2 on a

HP Pavilion quad core. My powemac g5 has been having motherboard issues lately so I figured now was the time to do it. I'm amazed at how fast iMovie imports my HD video shot from my camcorder.

Also video rendering is much faster too.

 

Now that I'm gonna use the hackintosh instead of my old powermac g5 for work, I need to know what are you all doing for a backup strategy? I used carbon copy and learned quickly after the copy is done I need to install the bootloader. Is there a OSx86 community disk clone application written that automates all of this ? Also my quad core has 3 operating systems on three seperate drives.

I've got OpenSuse Linux 11.3, Windows 7, and Macos 10.6.2 Upon initail bootup I get a warning message stating that I need to initiailize a volume.. of course I click on ignore since this is macos not detecting my Linux volume, is there a way of preventing the OS from scanning that hard drive ?

 

Also here's a test video of my hackintosh:

 

[berry_lthird]

I was wondering the same thing as jerryn.

 

I've got only two OS'es installed: Snow Leopard and Windows 7 Ultimate.

 

I have already successfully used a combination of Time Machine and "Carbon Copy Cloner" to FULLY recover my OS X installation! Although this didn't come without it's own share of hassles. *rolls eyes* The method I used: Starting from scratch, started OS X install, erased and re-partitioned the drive, installed Windows 7 (again), and then completed installing OS X. But when it got to the migration dialog, I chose my Time Machine backup. So the system was back up, but not at 100%. I then booted to my external USB drive and used Carbon Copy Cloner to complete the installation, replacing the items on the system drive. BAM! Back to 100%, baby!

 

I don't know what other options you have for the other OS'es on your system, but the one I outlined above worked 100% for me.