>On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> >wrote: > > Carbon Copy Cloner (and the very similar Super Duper) makes it very > easy to recover form a failed HDD: just boot from your backup. >
To create a bootable clone copy of an OS X partition I've always just used the confusingly named (to me) "restore" function in the OS X included Disk Utility app. Always seems to work fine for me in 10.5 and later. (I believe it is supposed to work from 10.3 on, but I've only had direct experience with 10.5 & 10.6) If you want some compression I guess you could also create a image file of your partition, though I would not expect you to be able to boot from that. But, FWIW, I think I read that you can boot from install media and then restore from a .dmg file. What advantage is there to using these other apps beyond what Apple's Disk Utility would provide? -irrational john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
