I'm a big fan of Disk Utility to clone drives (have been ever since 10.4, when CCC went awol for a while. dmg disk image to do a restore on a new machine, which technically should be exactly the same as the first machine at the time you backed it up. It takes a few minutes to complete, but you then have a (mountable!) disk image storing an exact image of your hard drive.ĭisk Utility then lets you use that. Find somewhere with plenty of space (I chose my LaCie FireWire800 external), and save the disk image in read/write format. Next, go to Disk Utitlity, click on the new external FireWire hard drive and File: New -> Disk Image from Disk(x). On my G4 tower, my iBook hard drive popped up as an external drive.
My iBook rebooted and had a FireWire screensaver pop up. Plug in a FireWire cable and hook it up to another Mac running OS X. (On older systems, just hold down "T" while booting the machine.) The computer will restart. In Tiger's System Preferences, go to StartUp Disk and select Target Disk Mode. However, because I use it every day, it's highly tweaked, with preferences, Automator apps, crontabs and shell scripts going that I don't even remember! So I wanted a way to back it up completely, so that it if my iBook finally gives up the ghost, or if I can scrape together enough for a new iBook, I can do a restore and have my iBook running just the way I remember it - I wanted an easy backup of the entire filesystem. I've been using it since 2001, and it's a testimony to Apple that inspite of dragging it around the world with me, dropping it a couple of times it's still going strong, and actually runs Tiger, Adobe CS, Macromedia Studio MX, MS Office 2004 and Final Cut Express without any trouble. I have an old 500mhz G3 iBook with only 256mb RAM and 10gb hard drive.
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