hAvAAck Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Hi All, I've tried searching but maybe I'm not using the correct terms. I'm looking to make an image of my install to be able to be backed up from. Basically I had everything working, something borked, and I had to start over. Now I'm back with everything working and I'd like a disk image of this that I could load if things become borked again. Suggestions? Link to a topic where this has been discussed? Thanks, and sorry! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markrtoon Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Use Time Machine. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hAvAAck Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Use Time Machine. I couldn't figure out how to make it back up the OS/programs instead of all data can I do that? Also, can I restore from outside of OSX? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 If you have a spare drive (internal or external) or a spare partition my advice is use Carbon Copy Cloner (Free/donation ware). You can backup what you want. If its a separate drive, install chameleon or whatever boot loader you use to have a bootable backup. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboToronto Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 can I restore from outside of OSX? Hi, I see you have the same problem as me. When I saw your post I registered as a member so I could participate in this thread. I recently bought a used Asus EeePC901 with OSX and Ubuntu preinstalled. I'm new to the hackintosh world and figured it was a chance at a head start at learning OSX86. I also figured that I'd probably screw up at some point and need to start from scratch again. I haven't even gotten past the introductory welcome and register screen because I wanted to clone my boot partition before proceeding in case I mess up and have to start from scratch again. Unfortunately it seems I have to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to image the boot partition and CCC is in the form of a DMG file, which seems to require something like BitZipper to extract the file and a Mac to run it. I'd simply use a friend's Mac to do this but the SSD in question is not a standard 2.5' SATA or PATA SSD which I could simply throw into an enclosure and connect through USB or eSATA, but rather a minicard (not mini-PCIe but a proprietary Asus spec called FLASH_CON). I considered using an OSX live DVD to access the OSX boot partition and clone it but this seems rather dicey. Isn't there a way to clone this partition using Linux or Windows? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Hi, I see you have the same problem as me. When I saw your post I registered as a member so I could participate in this thread. I recently bought a used Asus EeePC901 with OSX and Ubuntu preinstalled. I'm new to the hackintosh world and figured it was a chance at a head start at learning OSX86. I also figured that I'd probably screw up at some point and need to start from scratch again. I haven't even gotten past the introductory welcome and register screen because I wanted to clone my boot partition before proceeding in case I mess up and have to start from scratch again. Unfortunately it seems I have to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to image the boot partition and CCC is in the form of a DMG file, which seems to require something like BitZipper to extract the file and a Mac to run it. I'd simply use a friend's Mac to do this but the SSD in question is not a standard 2.5' SATA or PATA SSD which I could simply throw into an enclosure and connect through USB or eSATA, but rather a minicard (not mini-PCIe but a proprietary Asus spec called FLASH_CON). I considered using an OSX live DVD to access the OSX boot partition and clone it but this seems rather dicey. Isn't there a way to clone this partition using Linux or Windows? Clonezilla partition to partition will clone os x, if you use disc to disc you will wreck the boot loader. I was talking about a disc to disc clone with CCC not disc to image, either all or selected items clone. The only OS X live DVD is IPC 10.5.6 final live, if there are others, I would like to know. If you boot with IPC live and had an image dmg file on a usb drive you could use disc utility to restore it. EDIT Create your own Live DVD http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=232796 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=233198 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 If you have a spare drive (internal or external) or a spare partition my advice is use Carbon Copy Cloner (Free/donation ware). You can backup what you want. If its a separate drive, install chameleon or whatever boot loader you use to have a bootable backup. Diskutil can do the cloning with its restore function. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Diskutil can do the cloning with its restore function. Yes thats true, but it has limitations. CCC can do an incremental backup of selected items for example. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hAvAAck Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 If you have a spare drive (internal or external) or a spare partition my advice is use Carbon Copy Cloner (Free/donation ware). You can backup what you want. If its a separate drive, install chameleon or whatever boot loader you use to have a bootable backup. Thanks, I'll take a look in to this. Basically what I'm trying to do is create a restore point that I can access via a live disk that I can use to repair my installation. For instance, last time for some reason all USB functionality stopped working, including in safe mode, which made it impossible for me to do anything as I couldn't use mouse/kb. I started all over and now I'm trying to prevent this from happening again. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240009-create-an-os-image/#findComment-1603460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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