Lightworker Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hey guys, I have Leopard 10.5.1 via iATKOS running "mostly well" Before I mess around with it further, what's the best way to get an image of my installation drive as a backup? I've tried using disk utility to back it up to an external NTFS formatted USB HD, but my installation's HD is always in use so this fails. I would consider booting off the install DVD and doing it that way, but I would have no NTFS write support to the target drive. Any other suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike86ttype Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 i did a backup of my drive using norton ghost, but i did drive to drive. Both drives booted up fine afterward but it took and hour. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-643055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightworker Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 i did a backup of my drive using norton ghost, but i did drive to drive. Both drives booted up fine afterward but it took and hour. I wasn't aware they made a mac compatible version of Ghost... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-643601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 for mbr acronis. with guid disks I had the best experiences with copycatx. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-643642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightworker Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 I'll give Acronis a try since I've a MBR disk. Right now I used the hdiutil command, and its taking positively forever. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-643758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I'll give Acronis a try since I've a MBR disk. Right now I used the hdiutil command, and its taking positively forever. with acronis it takes around 20 minutes for 60gb on my machine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-644077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unohoo Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I use Acronis and I rely on it. It only copies disks so make sure that your target disk is always the same size or larger than your source. It cannot cope with target disks being smaller than the source. I have built my leopard on a 20GB disk - fully updated - with apps I want. I restored this to the main disk (500GB) and I test on this main disk. I restore from the 20GB when I hit trouble. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-644081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightworker Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 Well I woke up today and it was done Thanks for the advice though, I'll use Acronis next time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-644241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Why not just use Superduper? It can backup a mounted sys volume and it's fast. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-644354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unohoo Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Superduper looks really good - thanks!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-644398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unohoo Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 OK I tried Superduper. No speed difference between it and Acronis. It does not give you an image because it does not boot without further work. Both are useful though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-645082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I use the install DVD to boot, and external USB Drive with a HFS+ Partition. Use disk utility and backup leopard parition to the external USB Drive. Creates a nice compressed dmg file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-645130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Several ways: - Acronis True Image - Disk Utility - SuperDuper - Carbon Copy Cloner Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-645169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Reasons I like Superduper: -It'll image a mounted system drive -It runs natively, no boot disc -It updates the image incrementally -It has powerful scripting options -It'll create a bootable system image and compressed dmg during the same session. (For example: When my backup script runs after I go to bed it updates the internal backup boot drive and then puts the computer to sleep... but every Friday it not only does that, it also write a new dmg image to the server and deletes the old one. I couldn't live without Superduper. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90133-whats-the-best-way-to-take-an-image-of-my-drive-for-backup/#findComment-645194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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