here are the instructions i followed from CCC:
**Again, i do not have a Partition on my External HD with the backup, so I partitioned part of the iMac HD and called it rescue like below:
Dont mind the red, that is just me chiming in, not being mad or anything -- im all friendly, just stating where it doesnt make sense to me
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"I have a full-volume backup in a folder or a disk image, but I don't
have a bootable backup. How can I restore everything?"
CCC makes bootable backups specifically to avoid this kind of situation. When you have a bootable backup, you simply boot from that, then restore everything to a replacement disk or the original disk. One step, minimal time, couldn't be easier. Occasionally people get into this sticky situation though — I have a backup of everything in a disk image or in a folder on the backup volume, there's a clean installation of Mac OS X on my replacement disk, now how do I get everything back to the way that it was before?
The first thing that you need to do is make a boot volume that is not the volume you want to restore to. Once you have done that, you can boot from that volume and then do a complete restore of your backup to the replacement disk. There are several options for how and where you create this other bootable volume. For example, you could install Mac OS X onto a thumb drive, or you could use CCC to clone your clean installation of Mac OS X to a thumb drive.
You could also create a new partition on your replacement disk and clone the fresh installation of Mac OS X to that.
*****If I do a clean installation of Mac OS 10.7 from the Lion USB Drive, on the iMac I want to restore to, it takes me to setup an account... where do i go from here???
The steps below attempt to make very few assumptions about the resources you'll have in this scenario: a) You have a fresh installation of Mac OS X on a hard drive (is this the imac i want to restore to??) and b) you have your backup in a folder or disk image on some other disk. Given those assumptions, here is how we recommend that you proceed:
Create a new partition on your replacement disk
1. Open the Disk Utility application (in what account?? if im not supposed to make one??) and click on the disk icon that represents your internal hard drive. Don't click on the "Macintosh HD" icon, click on the one above that.
2. Click on the Partition tab.
3. Click on the "+" button.
4. Set the size o fthe new partition to 15GB and name it something like "Rescue".
5. Click the "Apply" button.
Again, i do this fine, but i had to set up a user account after doing a clean install of Mac OS 10.7 on the imac
Clone your fresh installation of Mac OS X to the Rescue volume
1. Open the Carbon Copy Cloner application.
2. Choose your current startup disk as the source.
3. Choose the Rescue volume as the destination.
4. If you aren't working from a fresh installation of Mac OS X, take a moment to exclude third-party applications from
the list of items to be copied, as well as any large items in your home folder (e.g. /Users/yourname/Music).
5. Click the Clone button.
Boot from the Rescue volume and restore your data to the replacement disk
1. Open the Startup Disk Preference Pane, set the Rescue volume as the startup disk, then click on the Restart button.
2. Once restarted from the Rescue volume, attach the backup volume to your Mac and open the Carbon Copy Cloner
application.
3. If your data is backed up in a folder, choose "Choose a folder..." from the Source menu and select that folder as the
source. Otherwise, choose "Restore from a disk image..." and locate your backup disk image.
4. Choose your "Macintosh HD" volume as the destination.
5. Choose "Temporarily archive modified and deleted items" from the settings menu.
6. Click the Clone button.
Reboot from your restored volume and clean up
1. Open the Startup Disk Preference Pane, set the restored volume as the startup disk, then click on the Restart button.
2. Open the Disk Utility application and click on the disk icon that represents your internal hard drive.
3. Click on the Partition tab.
4. Click on the Rescue volume, then click on the "-" button to delete that volume.
5. Click the Apply button.
Finally, make a new backup to the root of a locally-attached hard drive so you'll have a bootable backup from here forward.
