Q: Backup image of hard drive
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Apr 6, 2015 3:53 PMby Kappy,HelpfulUse Disk Utility:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the backup drive. Source means the source drive.
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Apr 6, 2015 3:50 PMby Blues Fan,I found this...
Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: How to back up and restore your files - Apple Support
But could not find anything related to the current OS. I didn't want to just assume the information was the same and end up screwing it up!
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Apr 6, 2015 3:55 PMby Niel,To do this with the Disk Utility, use the instructions Kappy posted or click here. If you create a disk image, it can be mounted on its own, but won’t be bootable unless restored to a drive or partition, or if you have a machine running Mac OS X Server on the network.
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Apr 6, 2015 3:57 PMby Kappy,If you image to a .dmg file, then it mounts like a disk. If you image to a disk, then it's a disk copy. A bootable image on a drive/disk is itself bootable. Not so for an disc image copy until it is restored to a drive.
In your case you are cloning to another hard drive, so it becomes an exact copy of the original drive in every way.
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Apr 6, 2015 4:03 PMby Blues Fan,I guess then, I would like to have it as an image vs a clone. So I would follow this...
Disk Utility (Yosemite): Create a disk image
Correct?
edit: This is due to there being multiple machines involved. I do not care to have many other drives, if I can have images that can be mounted, we're good.
