On Friday 21 October 2005 1:27 pm, Thomas Kirk wrote: > Robert: I use cabon copy cloner form bombich software. > http://www.bombich.com/software/index.html It's free to individual users. > I use an external firewire harddrive to clone it to. Than I boot from the > external drive to check it out. Than I reverse the process to get > everything going again on the new drive. It does take a fair amount of time > to transfer everything. Thomas Kirk
we use that proggie on our mac os x server, & it works well. we back up the whole drive every night. recommended. scott > On Friday, October 21, 2005, at 10:18AM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Did you know that you can use Knoppix to back-up a Mac? > > > >As some of you know, the CD-ROM on the Mac I use no longer works. So > >I brought it to the Apple store to have a look at. After the guys > >behind the counter ran some diagnostics, it turns out that it is > >indeed a hardware problem. However, in order to get the CD-ROM fixed > >I need to backup the drive and send it to AppleCare. I should have > >it back in a day or so. I'm thinking, no problem. I'll just boot > >with my Mac System Rescue CD and image the drive to an external > >FireWire drive, right? Nope. Remember, it's the CD-ROM that's > >broken, which eliminates booting from the CD-ROM as an option. > > > >So, what to do? Turns out that the Macs have some very cool boot > >tricks that remind me of Sun. On trick is to power off the Mac and > >then press and hold the "T" key while you turn the Mac back on. By > >pressing the "T" key the Mac does not boot into OS X, but rather > >turns itself into a FireWire drive. So, I plugged one end of a > >FireWire cable into the Mac and the other end of the cable into my > >Knoppix Linux box and sure enough, dmesg showed a new drive at /dev/ > >sda. Unfortunately, I could not mount the drive (tried a few mount > >options without success). But I was able to image the drive using > >'dd if=/dev/sda of=mac.img' > > > >At this point I have a complete image of my Mac's hard drive. The > >gutsy thing to do now is to intentionally wipe the Mac's disk clean, > >e.g dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda, try to boot the Mac (hopefully > >fail), and then restore the image (dd if=mac.img of=/dev/sda), and > >try to boot again (hopefully success). But I haven't gotten around > >to doing that, yet > > > >In summary, to image a Mac drive you'll need an x86 machine with a > >FireWire card, a FireWire cable, a hard drive large enough to hold > >the Mac's image, and Knoppix. Boot the x86 machine with Knoppix. > >Boot the Mac while holding down the "T" key. Plug the FireWire cable > >first into the x86 and then into the Mac. Begin imaging Mac drive. > > > >Enjoy. > > > >Regards, > >- Robert > >http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > >Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > >for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CWE-LUG mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.cwelug.org/ > >http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > >http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book on Firefox: Don't Click on the Blue E! Info at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bluee/ Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." ---James Thurber _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
