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Backup my OSX?
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Zaurus
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Feb 27, 2005, 05:25 PM
 
hey guys

i'm looking for a way to backup my entire System Drive to a HFS+ partition (on an external HDD)
so if anything goes wrong
i can boot from that partition


and how to preserve the user permission and stuff?

and how to do it with Disk Utility?


thanks
     
Zaurus  (op)
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Feb 27, 2005, 05:30 PM
 
just like Ghost on Windows

exact copy
     
romeosc
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Feb 27, 2005, 06:36 PM
 
I prefer Carbon Cloner!
     
Zaurus  (op)
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Feb 27, 2005, 11:28 PM
 
Originally posted by romeosc:
I prefer Carbon Cloner!
i tried that

it won't let me run it because i need to have a secondary local hard disk install

but i have an iBook, how can i have a secondary local hard disk install?
     
   
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