OS 9 backup and restore

[pipetogrep]

Hi all,

I'd like to repartition my iMac and dualboot its existing OS 9 install with another OS. What is the best way to backup and restore OS 9? Disk utility? Some OS 9 equivalent of CCC? Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[eyoungren]

Hi all,

I'd like to repartition my iMac and dualboot its existing OS 9 install with another OS. What is the best way to backup and restore OS 9? Disk utility? Some OS 9 equivalent of CCC? Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Attach a drive or connect to a fileshare with sufficient capacity to store the entirety of your OS9 install. On that attached drive or connected share, create a new folder and call it whatever you want to call it.

Then, open the drive of the OS9 install and 'Select All' in Finder. Drag everything to the folder you just made and named and drop. Wait for the copy to finish.

There's your backup.

To restore, do the reverse.

It's OS9 - no permissions.

 

[pipetogrep]

Attach a drive or connect to a fileshare with sufficient capacity to store the entirety of your OS9 install. On that attached drive or connected share, create a new folder and call it whatever you want to call it.

Then, open the drive of the OS9 install and 'Select All' in Finder. Drag everything to the folder you just made and named and drop. Wait for the copy to finish.

There's your backup.

To restore, do the reverse.

It's OS9 - no permissions.

Neat! Resource forks remain intact if transferring to another HFS partition?

Thanks!

 

[eyoungren]

Neat! Resource forks remain intact if transferring to another HFS partition?

Thanks!

Yes they do. You could also compress the top level folders into separate .sit files (if you have Stuffit) and just transfer those instead. The archive will preserve the resource forks on non Mac formatted drives.

 

[swamprock]

I use CCC to clone the drive to an image, restore the image using same to a new drive/partition, and then use DiskWarrior to "fix" and bless the drive, if needed. Makes it a lot easier than just dragging everything over, as some hidden stuff often gets missed. I back up my Dreamcast development system this way, by saving the image itself to one of my backup drives, and I make snapshots every couple of months, just in case things go pear-shaped with either my OS 9 install or the machine it's installed on.

 

[Bigwaff]

What is the best way to backup and restore OS 9? Disk utility? Some OS 9 equivalent of CCC? Any tips would be appreciated.

Way back in the day, I used this to "copy" (i.e. clone) my Mac OS 9 start up disk to an external drive.

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/lacie-silverkeeper-v1x

 

[eyoungren]

I use CCC to clone the drive to an image, restore the image using same to a new drive/partition, and then use DiskWarrior to "fix" and bless the drive, if needed. Makes it a lot easier than just dragging everything over, as some hidden stuff often gets missed. I back up my Dreamcast development system this way, by saving the image itself to one of my backup drives, and I make snapshots every couple of months, just in case things go pear-shaped with either my OS 9 install or the machine it's installed on.

I know there is a OS9 version of DiskWarrior, but did Carbon Copy Cloner ever work on OS9? The closest I can find is version 2 and that seems to have been OS X.

 

[swamprock]

I know there is a OS9 version of DiskWarrior, but did Carbon Copy Cloner ever work on OS9? The closest I can find is version 2 and that seems to have been OS X.

Yeah... I should have mentioned that I run CCC from another machine running Tiger, with TDM from my dev machine via Firewire. I then move the image to my backups. I use the same Tiger machine to run DiskWarrior.

 

[pipetogrep]

I use CCC to clone the drive to an image, restore the image using same to a new drive/partition, and then use DiskWarrior to "fix" and bless the drive, if needed. Makes it a lot easier than just dragging everything over, as some hidden stuff often gets missed. I back up my Dreamcast development system this way, by saving the image itself to one of my backup drives, and I make snapshots every couple of months, just in case things go pear-shaped with either my OS 9 install or the machine it's installed on.

Ah cool. I tried CCC before but missed the "bless" step.

 

[Luke MacWalker]

I use CCC to clone the drive to an image, restore the image using same to a new drive/partition, and then use DiskWarrior to "fix" and bless the drive, if needed. Makes it a lot easier than just dragging everything over, as some hidden stuff often gets missed. I back up my Dreamcast development system this way, by saving the image itself to one of my backup drives, and I make snapshots every couple of months, just in case things go pear-shaped with either my OS 9 install or the machine it's installed on.

It’s been a while, but I think I remember that to bless a System Folder, I just moved away the System file and put it back in the System Folder: the Mac icon would then reappear on the System folder.
When I had to test software on several versions of Mac OS, I had folders named “Deactivated” in each System folder, and I used them to store the System file to “un-bless” a System before blessing another by moving back its System file from its “Deactivated” folder to System folder.
At that time you could have multiple versions of Mac OS even without partitioning the drive…
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