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System restore on a Mac

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spaghettishark

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Oct 2, 2008
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I'm unfamiliar with how to perform a system restore on a Mac. On my PC I can just go through the System Tools > Sys. Restore and have my PC almost back to how it was when I bought it.

How can I do this on my Mac?
I don't have the discs it came with, nor can I get new ones.
 
There's no way to make a boot disc off of itself??

I don't get why I would be locked to using a disc that I won't have with me at all times.
 
spaghettishark said:
There's no way to make a boot disc off of itself??

I don't get why I would be locked to using a disc that I won't have with me at all times.
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Are you using Time Machine? You can roll the system back that way as well.

Edit: However now that I think about it I guess you would need a Install disk for that as well.
 
spaghettishark said:
There's no way to make a boot disc off of itself??

I don't get why I would be locked to using a disc that I won't have with me at all times.
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why dont you have your discs?

at all times? how often do you need to restore?

i keep a bootbale flash image of leopard on my thumbdrive that i created the the os disc persoanly as it makes install a lot faster

lostngone said:
Are you using Time Machine? You can roll the system back that way as well.

Edit: However now that I think about it I guess you would need a Install disk for that as well.
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correct, you still need to install osx before you can use time machine
 
Having to restore isn't something I planned on, this is what I meant by "at all times". Of course the one time I do need to restore, I won't conveniently have the disc or the time to get one.
 
spaghettishark said:
There's no way to make a boot disc off of itself??

I don't get why I would be locked to using a disc that I won't have with me at all times.
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If you have a working system you can clone your disk to an external drive with carbon copy cloner. If you use it correct you end up with a bootable hard drive. This used to be firewire only but should have changed since apple is no longer building firewire ports in some models.
 
System Restore is not the panacea you make it out to be. If you can't boot your PC, System Restore does you no good either. You will still need to have a Windows install or recover disk handy. Some lap tops come with a restore partition that that lets you restore the system to new state if it fails. But, all data that was on the disk is wiped out.

If you are traveling with your lap top, make copies of your install discs and keep them in your laptop case.

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