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Possible to Backup ENTIRE OS X system?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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Hi,
I'm wondering what is the best way to backup my OSX system, including apps, photos, music, etc?
Is it possible for me to copy the entire "Macintosh HD" over to my PC drive, reinstall OSX, then copy it back over and have everything work still?
Thanks for any input.
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- Dictator George W. Bush, Washington Post, 11-19-02
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Just back up your home directory. Depending on what you have, it could require several CDs or a few DVDs. For apps, if you downloaded third-party freeware/shareware, you can simply burn a CD of the .dmg files (what I did) and keep it archived somewhere.
Also, why would you want to re-install OS X? That should ONLY be done if your system is hosed.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Copying your entire Macintosh HD over and then back wouldn't work and is pretty pointless anyway since that includes the system software that you apparently want to reinstall. Besides that, there are a few other problems with a simple drag-backup. Some files and applications (not many, but some) depend on a resource fork, and that would be lost. Permissions would almost certainly be hosed, which can screw some things up.
The program Carbon Copy Cloner is designed to do proper backups. You might want to look into that.
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Chuck
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Hyrule
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get out your backup drive, preferably do this from another volume, get out cpmac, type (from root of drive):
sudo cpmac -r * /volumes/blah/whatever
*wait a few hours for it to happen*
cpmac is in dev tools
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Does cpmac do the right thing with a Windows-formatted disk? I've never tried that.
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Chuck
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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