Hard Drive Image

Erm disk utility! But seriously...

I backup with Carbon Copy Cloner (in Leopard, free) and used to use SuperDuper! for full disk image backups (in Tiger, waiting for their Leopard release, might switch back, it can do a complete image for free, incremental is not free).

Time Machine is good but does not provide a bootable image - you need to boot with the Leopard disks and then restore from your Time Machine disk.
 
Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper make bootable back ups... you image your drive to an external drive. Then for recovery you boot from that external drive. Instantly back in business.

Unlike Time Machine (for machine recovery); where you boot from the Leopard install DVD and then point it to restore from the Time Machine Disk.
 
so once you've backed up with disk utility or whatever (is there an advantage by the way of using CCC or that SuperDuper over disk utility?), how do you tell the mac at startup to use the external disk?

then once you're in what is the procedure for restoring the version you are running (the external image) back to the main hd?
 
To use your bootable clone, connect it to any powered-down Mac. Hold down the Option key and hit the power button. Mac OS X will ask you what disk it should boot from, listing the clone (and any other internal/external bootable disks) as choices. Double-click on Clone to start from your new mirror.

To then copy your clone onto the main drive - you just use CCC or SuperDuper in reverse... i.e. backup from clone to main drive. Then choose to boot from that disk from System Preferences... or just reboot with only the internal disk left - it will find it automagically.
 
Ahh tres cool... another bit of software from the makers of Carbon Copy Cloner. I really should look at his other apps!

A bit overkill for your needs I think - but if you need to restore over https!
 
i did ask above but the question was part of another one and got overlooked... but why would you use CCC or SD over the standard disk utility... isn't a carbon copy a carbon copy?

(thats not me criticizing by the way i really would like to know why its advantageous)
 
CCC for free (and SD! for cost) unlike Disk Utility can also perform backup of selected items, and synchronise between the original and the backed up copy, meaning that in future backups it will copy only items that have changed since the previous backup.
You can make block-level copies of one partition to another; you can back up across a network; and schedule backups.
 
artaxerxes said:
CCC for free (and SD! for cost) unlike Disk Utility can also perform backup of selected items, and synchronise between the original and the backed up copy, meaning that in future backups it will copy only items that have changed since the previous backup.
You can make block-level copies of one partition to another; you can back up across a network; and schedule backups.
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but does disk utility not have the advantage of being able to boot from an image?

i.e. the only suitable way for me to back up is to a disk image on an external drive (a drive that has many other things on it), so i wont be able to boot from that if CC made it, but with disk utility it can work from that image can't it?

basically i'm saying if you dont have a dedicated backup drive, how do you restore form an image?
 
I want to use my external drive hooked up to my iMac for transferring files to my PS3. The PS3 only reads FAT32 and Time Machine will only format the hard drive to Mac OSX Extended Journal.

I used to use SuperDuper but since it doesn't work I'll use Carbon Copy Cloner. My question is, basically, if I formated it to FAT32 and use CCC can this still be used as a bootable image for my iMac?

Edit: I can't use CCC with FAT32, doesn't seem to let it copy to it. Is there any way I can format a backup drive for my Mac to use with my PS3?
 
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