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Urgent Disk image needed

lexus

lexus

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Ok I need to make an urgent back up disk image of my pb. What should I use and how should I do it. I have a HD with 70 gb free and my hd is 85.

Thanks
 
Please note.. I hope you're backing up to another source. A backup to your current hard drive is NOT a backup at all.
 
lexus said:
Of course but super duper is not letting me what settings do I need.
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Well... in the "copy" drop down select your hard drive, in the "to" drop down select the destination hd, and in the "using" drop down select "Backup - All Files".

Then click "Copy Now".
 
If you just want to make a Disk Image (.dmg file) then Apple's Disk Utility will do it for you. Mount the disks you want to copy from and to, then (either) click the New Image toolbar button (or go to File>New>Image From...) and select the disk to be copied.

If you want to make a bootable clone then either use SuperDuper! (shareware, but will do a clone in demo mode too) or CarbonCopyCloner, which is donationware and will do the job just fine.
 
I keep getting this error.


Lacie is formatted as Windows_FAT_32, which cannot properly host HFS+ files along with all their attributes, resources and ownership.

To use Lacie with SuperDuper!, use Disk Utility to erase it, selecting "Mac OS Extended" or "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as the format.
 
The source and destination drive must be using the same format. The pb hdd is formatted HFS+, so your external must also be HFS+; FAT32 will NOT work.
 
You cannot convert it, you have to erase it and reformat it HFS+.

Use Disk Utility to do that. (Mac OS Extended (Journaled))
 
No it is not empty I have another hard drive with 80 GB's can I copy it to that then to the fat32 one?
 
Copy the data off of your external HD to somewhere... use disk utility to format the drive as HFS+... run the backup thing.
 
I would back up to your .Mac account if you have one providing you have a
broadband connection.
 
lexus said:
An 80 gb disk image to .mac????
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I would just up my HOME folder with all my personal stuff

Your .Mac account offers Backup 3

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backup.html

AFAIK it currently offers 1 GB of Back-up for prefs, address books and other personal
stuff.

I burn everything irreplaceable to CD or DVD, then I'm covered.

My HOME folder is currently a total of 12.95 GB, but I've got all of it saved to CD's


This is my personal back up strategy.

If I were to lose my primary drive, this insures that I can restore my system
a quickly as possible.



https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/2321652/
 
lexus said:
Ok I just did made a boot disk now how do I boot from it?
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Go to System Preferences/Startup Disk and select your new disk, the allow it to restart when asked. Or start the computer and press Option when you hear the chime, the select the boot disk from the menu it gives you.
 
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