I think I understand what you want ... e.g. to make clone images of a disk, possibly ones that can be booted? The two most popular applications in the Mac world, at least here at MR, are called SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner. They're both shareware.
I recommend SuperDuper! over Carbon Copy Cloner, and have found it to be highly reliable as well as easy to use.Thx guys for your fast responses.
I just looked at the Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper!, it seems they ARE what I'm looking for. Now my additional questions:
1. Which one is more reliable? I need to make sure the reliability because save much critical financial information on my MacBook.
2. Do the two softwares care about what I installed on the hard drive? I mean, if I have Mac OS and Windows installed through either Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop, will the clone image work for my Windows partition?
Here is another reason to favor SuperDuper, assuming the facts in this article are still correct for the latest versions of the programs involved:I recommend SuperDuper! over Carbon Copy Cloner...
Here is another reason to favor SuperDuper, assuming the facts in this article are still correct for the latest versions of the programs involved:
Carbon Copy Cloner, which relies the ditto command, does not back up all of the file metadata that SuperDuper does. Even if you don't wade through all of the details, see the Results Table section in that article.