Carbon Copy Cloner - or any other backup solution...

Nice one !!!!

Then it should work.

Regards
Daniel

 

I cant do this "sudo pico /Volumes/YOUR_BACKUP_PARTITION/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist"

Pico command not found and when i type the same without the Pico it say's something that bla bla is a volume...

Any ideas ?

Regards
Daniel

 

"pico" is a text editor, it should be installed on your system. I don't remember what other editors are installed on a standard Mac OS X distribution. Try "vi" for instance.

 

I use dd as well to make a backup. However I target it at an .img file. This way your backup is a file that you can keep on any storage you like.

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/Volumes/EXTERNALVOLUME/backup.img bs=1m

Check if your HD is actually /dev/disk0 with

Code:

diskutil list

and of course replace EXTERNALVOLUME with the actual name of your usb or network drive.
For a restore boot from the install dvd, open a terminal and reverse the command.

Code:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk0
dd if=/Volumes/EXTERNALVOLUME/backup.img of=/dev/disk0 bs=1m

Please be careful, patient and be sure you understand what you're doing.

 

Nano, vi and emacs should be included (pico is linked to nano), but maybe even more I don't know about.
However I found out the iAtkos install DVD has none of these installed. One solution is to manually give the rd=disk1s2 kernel flag at boot and change the com.apple.Boot.plist from the restored disk.

 

I did a full clone and reversed the process to my knew disk. All went fine with the data transfer but when machine is booting it is only booting up to a flashing underscore ( _ )

So i gave up and did the reinstallation from the dvd. But i still want to make a bootable clone of my machine when i fully up and running again.

2manydjs is your way the path to success ?

Regards
Daniel

 

Maybe this is gonna sound stupid, but here goes. Ive set up a few hackintoshes, but just used them for general use. As far as backup is concerned, wont Time Machine do the trick?