Gally30 Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I used Ghost8.0 to backup my OSX partition(about 6GB), but ghost files is about 28 GB(14 files). It is weird. Is there any tool/utility to back it up in reasonable file size? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomA2 Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Do you have to back it up as a partition? Or do you just need to back it up? One of the best Mac backup programs is: SuperDuper! 2.1.3 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gally30 Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 Do you have to back it up as a partition? Or do you just need to back it up? One of the best Mac backup programs is: SuperDuper! 2.1.3 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126 I want to back it up to an image file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 My OSX image from a clean install in Ghost 8 is about 1.5gb using high compresion mode. The secret is to zero-fill the partition you are going to install OSX since Ghost can not recognize Osx filesystem and so it can not determine which data is worth and which ones is not (for example data present from a previous windows installation in the same disk space). If you make a complete format of the destination partition the entire partition will be filled with 00 00 00 ... and so Ghost would be able to compress the non used space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHmodzs Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I used Ghost8.0 to backup my OSX partition(about 6GB), but ghost files is about 28 GB(14 files).It is weird. Is there any tool/utility to back it up in reasonable file size? you have to disable journaling first in your OSX partition before doing the image backup.use cocktail tools to disable mac osx journal extended partition then continue to backup your partition. i was doing this to grow up my partition from 8GB to 25GB. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomA2 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Have a look at this: http://www.bombich.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarklov3r Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 put in your OSX installer disc as if you were going to install a fresh install go to the hard drive manager thingy click the partition you want to image click up top IMAGE DISK or something like that OSX can image disks for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarklov3r Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 put in your OSX installer disc as if you were going to install a fresh install go to the hard drive manager thingy click the partition you want to image click up top IMAGE DISK or something like that OSX can image disks for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 What I would like to be able to do is burn an image to a bootable DVD so that if I screw something up then I can flash my HD with the working image. Maybe backup to an external USB drive and then backup from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gally30 Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 you have to disable journaling first in your OSX partition before doing the image backup.use cocktail tools to disable mac osx journal extended partition then continue to backup your partition. i was doing this to grow up my partition from 8GB to 25GB. good luck Cocktail will encounter "AppleScript error" on my system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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