Single user mode - copy entire drive

[Ben Kei]

Good morning all,

I've got a MacBook Pro late 2011 that suffered from the GPU death this week and of course Apple stopped repairing a few months back. Just my luck!

Anyway, I've verified the disk is fine in single user mode and I know how to copy off individual directories but I assume there's an option to copy an entire drive?

So my question is, what's the text string for this action? I'm no Unix user, I've got as far as I have so far with a combination of Google and luck!
Secondarily, if I manage to get a copy of the drive, am I likely to run into permission issues trying to access some folders? as you would trying to access another users folders.

The way I've been doing it so far is here: http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/mac-osx-not-booting-make-backup-from.html

Although I replaced -pr for -prv which I found somewhere else to give verbose feedback so I knew when the action was actually finished.

Thanks in advance,
Ben

 

[Crash0veride]

dd terminal command should function in single user mode and can clone the partition, no permission errors, if you have a drive equal to or bigger than the partition size to clone it to: https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...the-best-way-to-clone-a-disk-between-two-macs

Feel the dead GPU feels. I had a 2009 MBP with two GPUs, one failed after four years and the other has been 90% dead after 6 (blue screen cast/random shutdowns).
[doublepost=1503066193][/doublepost]Also may be possible to switch to using only integrated graphics on your year: https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...isable-defective-graphics-card-in-macbook-pro