sephira Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Hi All (c: Just wondering what the best software would be to backup/image my HD when everything is the way I want it. Would like to be able to backup all partitions which would be EFI + OSX + Win 7, is CCC up for the task as I see a lot people recommend using this for OSX backup/cloning. Thanks for the help! Much love, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephira Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 basically can I make an image of my EFI, OSX, and windows partitions and restore them to functionality with CCC? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/#findComment-1433748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilemma Prison Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 basically can I make an image of my EFI, OSX, and windows partitions and restore them to functionality with CCC? No. As far as I remember CCC will back up to a volume or make a disk image. It's for copying files/folders (like a OSX install) and more or less maintain their permissions and other such data (a full copy in carbon copy would be bootable, etc on a normal mac). It isn't going to copy anything abnormal (your bootloader, or chameleon etc) however it would copy an Extra folder for example. It's not meant for Windows, and it doesn't copy whole partitions exactly or anything like that. I'm not sure what other people do for this stuff on windows. I use carbon copy cloner to keep my emergency boot volume for my osx up to date and to make disk images of a installed macos, but thats it really. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/#findComment-1433947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephira Posted March 24, 2010 Author Share Posted March 24, 2010 All the backups would be done is OSX. I just need software that I can point to a partition and same "make an image of that" and do that to all 3 partitions. So that hopefully I could just get another HD if my current one broke and create a duplicate of my working drive. Thanks for the help tho Nick! Anyone else got any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/#findComment-1433976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bism4rck Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Anyone else got any ideas? You can try Clonezilla and clone the whole disk, it supports many filesystems: Filesystem supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (4) VMFS of VMWare ESX. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, and FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla. Video guide: http://linuxgravity.com/creating-and-resto...-with-clonzilla Just give feedback if it works, good luck. http://clonezilla.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/#findComment-1434043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephira Posted March 24, 2010 Author Share Posted March 24, 2010 Cheers that looks like it should do it! Thanks very much. I am assuming that it should work as it does a block by block disk image? Am I correct in thinking that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/#findComment-1434090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilemma Prison Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Cheers that looks like it should do it! Thanks very much. I am assuming that it should work as it does a block by block disk image? Am I correct in thinking that? Last time i did block by block copies i just used dd. But i was copying small boot volumes for embedded hardware, not large desktop os sorta stuff. I suppose it's helpful to mention that clonezilla up there (as the other poster mentions) and CCC are just using dd, amongst other things, behind the scenes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213557-backup-osx-efi-ccc/#findComment-1436265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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