Leopard OSX failsafing - Best Method to copying whole OSX onto another drive

[knowhate]

I would like to make a carbon copy of my current OS Leopard onto another partition AND on onto another Hard Drive.

What is the best way to do this? Is there a good program for this?

[glenesis]

Good question. I've spent the last three days cloning my MacBook's 80gig hard drive. I tried it several different ways. My MacBook is running Leopard. I've had inconsistent results cloning the Leopard drive; Clones of Tiger were never this difficult to pull off successfully. Initially, I tried cloning the Leopard disk running under a Tiger startup disk. When I did a comparison, the image file that I cloned to was missing many essential files. The best way seems to be this:

 

1. Boot from the drive you intend to clone.

2. Clone the drive with SuperDuper! , available here:

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/Sup...escription.html

Note that SuperDuper! is shareware. You can use the unregistered copy to make a clone with no restriction.

3. If you have Toast, launch it. Under the Utility menu, choose Compare.... In the Compare box, drag your drive or partition to the section labeled Original, and drag the mounted copy of your partition to the section labeled copy. The only differences between the two volumes should be unimportant temp files and empty directories that the other, bootable system will recreate at startup.

 

After much trial and error, that's what worked the best for me. Let me know how it works out for you.

 

SuperDuper! has proven again and again to be much more reliable than Carbon Copy Cloner and Disk Utility when "Backup - All Files" is chosen.

[Slab_Bulkhead]

SuperDuper! 2.5 is now out, and costs @27 to access advanced functions. However, the evaluation version let me make a bootable copy onto another partition and it works perfectly. I'll be forking over the money for this!

[rezwits]

CCC is probably the cleanest purest way of "copying" everything. But as far as a backup every sunday or something, Super Duper is better...

[JMM]

Can this be used with OSX86 PC Leopard OS's?

 

Thank's

[mschilling]

Are you using guid efi partition for your Leo install? I'm wondering if it will work with both mbr and guid.

[aqua-mac]

Superduper works perfectly with GUID but you still need to install PC EFI afterwards to make the drive bootable.

[HaTaX]

I used this method to make a backup, but never attempted to recover it, so don't use it without a little testing. Boot off the Leopard DVD and then go into Disk Utility. Make sure the HD you'll be backing up is connected via USB or whatever and then click on the disk or partition you want to make an image of, then click create image. Store it where you can get at it.

 

Does this backup everything on the HD or is this not a good way to go about it?

[atlantis79]

I used CCC before and it works perfectly all the time. I do not have EFI I am still using the scripts from the ToH DVD.

[Zauberfalke]

Together with Time Machine Backups I keep disk images made with CCC from all my installations.

Works perfect on my hdds /w PC_EFI 8, GUID or MBR partitions

[idividebyzero]

Time Machine + iatkos boot script works perfectly fine for me. First I restore using time machine, then just run the boot script on iatkos. I have no reason to use disc images now, TM is easier.

[p1ksntded]

hello,

i used "clone tool hatchery" + Pframe if i remember without faults on tiger 10,4,10 to restore my osX img.

 

Last time i used it was for making an "hd install" of kalyway from the image file,

i've only to check "make bootable" sorry but don't remember if you can make this without destroy all partitions but for sure it work very well.

 

the installation time is really faster than dvd despite of a 8go seagate usb disk.

 

ps : please be tolerant with a french guy who never liked his english teacher :-)

10,5,2 update finish, time to reboot....