cyberderf Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Just finished installing a 10.6.3 system and I want to make a backup recovery partition in case something happen, just like some guru here might suggest. Principal SL partition is 64GB, future recovery partition is 16GB. Clone the big one ? Copy the files over the recovery ? Or just another plain install with USB install method ? For info I'm using latest Chameleon RC4. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piyokos Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 You can use CarbonCopyCloner (on the fly, while the system is booted, too) to make a dmg of a partition that expands only with the actual files stored on the partition it's mirroring. You can restore that image from the OS X boot CD's disk utility. I always assumed Chameleon resided in the MBR so restoring individual partitions wouldn't require reinstalling it, but that may not entirely be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberderf Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 @piyokos I search for it in the forums, found it could be difficult or too much tricky to do. What if I just install a new copy of SL on the recovery partition with my SnowLeo USB Install stick ? After all, it about 20 min of my life! After this, how do I set Chameleon the default boot to the correct partition ? - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 You can set boot options and flags in /extra/com.apple.Boot.plist. Go to the voodooprojects forum and read the documentation for the Chameleon bootloader - you can find it in the "general" forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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