You make an image of your drive the way it is right now. When or if you have to do a restore boot from your external drive that has the image on it, use disktools to erase the internal drive and then do a restore to that drive. The time it takes to restore depends on how big the image is. For instance tonight I have just done 7 restores of an image that is just under 9gb and these took about 15mins each and these were from slow 4200 external firewire drives.
Hope that helps. Regards roger > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Ghost Image Mac CLone >Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:30:57 +0900 > >>Thanks for the Replys >> >>With Superduper I see I can create a image but cant see if it can >>restore completely >>back to the drive that is bootable "The drive that has the OSX" >> >>On Windows when using Norton ghost I can use a image i created >>previously >>the PC will reboot and restore the image back on my C: drive >>so when the PC reboots it back to the original state as when the >>image was created. >>Ive done this for many years on the PC and this is the easiest way >to >>reinstall windows >>with all the drivers/software that can take 10 - 15 minutes. >> >>Just trying to work out if this can be done on OSX >> >>Thanks >> >> Regards >> Ray >> >>On 03/12/2006, at 4:07 PM, Robert Howells wrote: >>Ray , >> >>I can vouch for Superduper available from Shirtpocket . >>Demo version with limited functions is available , registered >version >>is excellent with it's extra functions . >> >>Create a Sparse Disk Image on your external firewire drive and copy > >>your drive ,or your home folder or to it . >> >>Download and description available here :- >> >><http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html/> >> >>The Superduper version 2.1.3 is for 10.3.9 and above . >>If you have earlier OSX and you cannot find an earlier version >>Superduper I can help >> >>You need to determine what you expect to do and then orgainse things > >>accordingly . >> >>With OSX the actual full system is split amongst a number of folders > >>and invisible files . >>Send some scenarios and I can send suggestions . >> >> >>-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
