Ho do I backup my install disks? 10.5/10.6

[JohnnyMac1]

I scratched my 10.5 disk and it wont read in the macbook pro I need it for but it reads in my mac pro fine. Is there a way I can make a duplicate of it to have as a backup and to use to install on the macbook pro? Also it would make sense to backup my 10.6 disk too.
Let me know. Thanks in advance

 

[spinnerlys]

How To Make Copies of DVDs

 

[Willdta]

its very simple,this will work for almost any dvd and cd-rom as well.all you need to do is get a img program like roxio (or several others that are free).then make a img of the dvd or a clone basically, and simply just burn that to a dvd.

 

[spinnerlys]

its very simple,this will work for almost any dvd and cd-rom as well.all you need to do is get a img program like roxio (or several others that are free).then make a img of the dvd or a clone basically, and simply just burn that to a dvd.

No third party application is needed. As the link I posted explains, Disk Utility does that, and Disk Utility is part of Mac OS X' Utilities folder.

 

[JohnnyMac1]

Spinnerlys
I did the copy and put in a blank dvd and the message screen says "waiting for drive" it then spins ect then stops with the message screen still up. I did notice that the copy of 10.6 I tried to make is 6.74gb. Is that whats causing it to time out? As the data is larger then a 4.7gb dvd blank disk.
Thanks so much to both of You for your help!!

 

[spinnerlys]

You need a Double Layer (DL) DVD to burn the image Disk Utility creates. Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 take up more than 4.7GB (4.37GiB), thus a DL DVD with 8.5GB (7.9GiB) is needed.

 

[Willdta]

No third party application is needed. As the link I posted explains, Disk Utility does that, and Disk Utility is part of Mac OS X' Utilities folder.

i find third party apps better than disk utility,and my explanation would work for all computers not just mac