iwantsound44 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 i would like to back up my whole system on an external hdd so if anything happened i can just put it back on the origianl drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^_^ Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I am looking for the same app that will do that too but haven't found a solution... Try super dumper but can log in error during logging in it says... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 i would like to back up my whole system on an external hdd so if anything happened i can just put it back on the origianl drive I use dd to back up my os x partition to a file on external hdd. Has worked perfectly since 10.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwantsound44 Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 what is dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 what is dd go to terminal type man dd Briefly it is a unix utility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Excuse my ignorance... Can you please give us an example on how to do it? And how to restore it to a HD. This is like a CLONE on a file right? thanks for your inputs! go to terminaltype man dd Briefly it is a unix utility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 And how do you restore to a HD. This is like a CLONE on a file right? You use dd to copy back from the file to your partition. Obviously not from within OS X (unless its another install). But versions of dd exist for windows, and Linux is a native utility under Linux, so there are many ways of restoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgiles Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Hey, You may need to check out Carbon Copy Cloner. It sounds like that would be what you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwantsound44 Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 with carbon copier if i put it on an external harddrive will i be able to boot into it like normal like will darwin load up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 No all the "cloners" software are made for Mac machines so you must at least make the drive bootable again manually by using pc_efi_v8! Always have a bootable disk like "Kalyway's format and make Harddrive bootable" DVD to prepare you new HDD then any backup & restore will work. this includes CCC, Superduper, normal Diskutility or even TimeMachine! As for the dd.exe command search for "flat image" there is a whole installation by this name but you need and the install procedures explain VERY nicely the different commands! SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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