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MigP · Oct 28, 2003, 01:01 PM

Has anyone been able to clone a bootable drive in Panther using Disk Utility?

I attempted to clone my PB G4's internal HD into a external FW disk partition. From Disk Utility's Restore tab, just dragged the source and the destination drives. Took about 1 hour to clone the 20Gb on the drive.

The problem came when I attempted to boot off the cloned drive. My PB displayed a big gray NO sign when I selected the drive to boot out of. Under Jaguar, I used to use Carbon Copy Cloner to do this.

Any successes out there doing this?

Thanks,

Miguel

gorickey · Oct 28, 2003, 01:04 PM

I believe you still need CCC to create your .asr image and then you can use the built-in "Restore" from Disk Utility to restore the image....

Anybody confirm?

Art Vandelay · Oct 28, 2003, 04:38 PM

I cloned one volume to another volume with no problems. I'm now trying to clone from an image.

Art Vandelay · Oct 28, 2003, 06:07 PM

No problems from an image either.

Terri · Oct 28, 2003, 06:40 PM

Can you boot from that volume?

gorickey · Oct 28, 2003, 06:55 PM

Originally posted by Art Vandelay:
No problems from an image either.

Did you make the image via the OS, or did you use CCC?

Art Vandelay · Oct 28, 2003, 07:24 PM

Originally posted by Terri:
Can you boot from that volume?

Yes.

Art Vandelay · Oct 28, 2003, 07:25 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Did you make the image via the OS, or did you use CCC?

Everything was done with Disk Utility.

gorickey · Oct 28, 2003, 07:28 PM

Art:

So how would you compare this experience with that of using Bombich's tools? Faster? Easier?

Just wondering....

Art Vandelay · Oct 28, 2003, 09:38 PM

I didn't benchmark it but I think the speed is at least equal to CCC. CCC does offer more options making it better for power users. For doing a simple clone, Disk Utility is a worthy alternative to CCC.

Terri · Oct 28, 2003, 09:48 PM

Every time I try to make an image of my boot drive to a FireWire drive I get device busy. I can do folders, but not the whole boot drive.

Art Vandelay · Oct 28, 2003, 10:18 PM

Originally posted by Terri:
Every time I try to make an image of my boot drive to a FireWire drive I get device busy. I can do folders, but not the whole boot drive.

You can't image the boot drive since it has to be unmounted to image properly.

MigP · Oct 29, 2003, 07:03 AM

Well that explains it. I been attempting this booted up on OS X and that's the same drive I'm trying to clone.

Is there documentation for the Disk Utility somewhere?

CCC used to be able to clone reliably the drive i was booted off from, so I guess, it's back to CCC (when it becomes available).

Thanks,

Miguel

Terri · Oct 29, 2003, 07:39 AM

I just used the latest version of CCC, 2.3 I think, to clone my boot drive to an image. Everything seems to have gone fine. I did get an error that I didn't have permission to copy my ~/.trash, but that was it.