Wolfsrudel Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Hi, my mac osx 10.4.8 installation is working perfectly (stable & fast). since getting there took a lot of time, i´d like to know how to make an image, that i can restore in case of an crashed update/driver/"experiment". i have another partition on a 2nd drive that i would like to use for that image. is ccc 2.3 the right solution? how can i restore the image in case of an "desaster"? thanks chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devotio Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Try SuperDuper!, it makes an image of your drive on an external drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rez. Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) As Devotio said, Super Duper will do what you want. It's shareware but it's core functionality doesn't expire (You just don't get extras like Scheduling). To restore a disk image you've made. You boot with your OS X installation DVD and use disk utility to restore the backed up image to a partition of your choice. Just to clarify, Super Duper will also back up to a Second Partition, Not just an external drive. Edited February 17, 2007 by Rez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Also, Acronis TrueImage also works well (although not free, and must be installed in your Windows system). It's better then to zero out free sectors before hand, to increase the compression. TI will then store the compressed image in a fat32/ntfs partition of your choice. I've restored many such images during tests, without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshawn Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 just boot with your disk and go into disk utility and go to new and image from disk0 or whatever your disk is (have the drive you want to back up highlighted, the drive, not the partition). Shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppan76 Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) SuperDuper will work. It's a really nice tool..unfortunally for me I cannot back up my system cause FAT32 doesnt support files larger than 4GB. Which is the only shared partition I have. :-( Edited February 17, 2007 by ppan76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rez. Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Unless you have a Linux Distro installed, You really don't need a Fat32 Partition. You should be able to read an NTFS partition from within OS X. MacDrive can read from an HFS Partition and write data from it to an NTFS Partition .. Just a Thought .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsrudel Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 Thanks for your help. I will try superduper.... br Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 good post was just what i was looking for...thanks devotio and Rez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Thanks from me also. I knew about SuperDuper backing up to an image, but I didn't know how to get that backup restored. I'll give it a try now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansaplast Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 (edited) Also, Acronis TrueImage also works well (although not free, and must be installed in your Windows system).It's better then to zero out free sectors before hand, to increase the compression. TI will then store the compressed image in a fat32/ntfs partition of your choice. I've restored many such images during tests, without problems. What version/edition of TrueImage did you use? I'm trying to make a backup of my entire disk (MBR, partitions, etc), since I have an nice Vista/MacOSX dualboot setup ... For the SuperDuper users; can SuperDuper do this as well? Edited February 21, 2007 by Hansaplast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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