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How to back up a disk image for new 13 MBA and Lion

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riverwater

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Aug 24, 2010
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Just order a new MBA 13", will receive it in 3-4 days. I want to produce a disk image of my entire Mac OS X disk's contents before I install any app on it. In the snow leopard, I can do it with Disk Utility. But this need to boot from DVD, how can I do it in Lion (no DVD disk) and MBA (no DVD drive)?
Is the Time machine the only back up method for MBA running Lion?
 
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steverunner

macrumors newbie
Dec 23, 2008
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UK
With Lion to access Disk Utilities, turn on power and then hold the Alt key down. This will boot into the recovery partition, you can then use disk utilities.
 
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