Is there for Mac OS 10 x ( Mac Mini), any backup program like that for PCs,
something like "Norton Ghost" or backup programs by Powerquest, i.e. "Drive
Image" I mean a program that can make and when required, restore the
complete bootable image of a disc partition.


Dan

Dan <dan.mitchell@antispam.virgin.net> wrote:

> Is there for Mac OS 10 x ( Mac Mini), any backup program like that for PCs,
> something like "Norton Ghost" or backup programs by Powerquest, i.e. "Drive
> Image" I mean a program that can make and when required, restore the
> complete bootable image of a disc partition.

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In article <d2kdbj$74m$1@titan.btinternet.com>,
"Dan" <dan.mitchell@antispam.virgin.net> wrote:

> Is there for Mac OS 10 x ( Mac Mini), any backup program like that for PCs,
> something like "Norton Ghost" or backup programs by Powerquest, i.e. "Drive
> Image" I mean a program that can make and when required, restore the
> complete bootable image of a disc partition.
>
>
> Dan

Not needed all that often, but...

The installation disks provided with the Mac mini can be used to restore
to the original.

You can use Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility to create a disk
image and then later restore from that disk image using Disk Utility.

Ask for Help inside of the Disk Utility.

Bob Harris

>
> The installation disks provided with the Mac mini can be used to restore
> to the original.
>
> You can use Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility to create a disk
> image and then later restore from that disk image using Disk Utility.

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I am thinking especially of HDD corruption or a virus problem that needs the
system to be restored from an externally held image - so just restoring the
operating system I thought might not be enough. Now if a hard disc fails I
would need to fit a blank new one - and thus must have a means of restoring
data as well as OS X. I have an external firewire HDD available, and on my
present PC use the grandfather/father/son system - i.e. I hold 3 successive
images of my complete PC system, done on different dates, to give me almost
complete safety, which I do need.

Before transferring vital data to a Mac I need to be able to do the same as
I do with a Windows PC.


dan

In article <d2luo0$h1h$1@hercules.btinternet.com>,
"Dan" <dan.mitchell@antispam.virgin.net> wrote:

> >
> > The installation disks provided with the Mac mini can be used to restore
> > to the original.
> >
> > You can use Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility to create a disk
> > image and then later restore from that disk image using Disk Utility.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am thinking especially of HDD corruption

Hard disk failures do happen.

Corruption from software failures is a possibility, but for the most
part Mac OS X HFS+ file system is fairly robust. Plus, Mac OS X rarely
crashes, so corruption from system failures is also rare.

BUT HAVING SAID THAT, backing up your Data is the smartest thing anyone
can do. Your data is what makes your computer useful to you. Value it,
care for it, preserve it.

> or a virus problem that needs the
> system to be restored from an externally held image

Not this week. So far there have been no Mac OS X virii in the wild.

> - so just restoring the
> operating system I thought might not be enough. Now if a hard disc fails I
> would need to fit a blank new one - and thus must have a means of restoring
> data as well as OS X. I have an external firewire HDD available, and on my
> present PC use the grandfather/father/son system - i.e. I hold 3 successive
> images of my complete PC system, done on different dates, to give me almost
> complete safety, which I do need.

Retrospect http://dantz.com is a very good backup utility that has been
serving the Mac community for years. You can do both full and
incremental backups. The backup media can be a file on a hard disk
(internal or external; like a firewire or USB disk), CD, DVD, tape.
Retrospect also support backup over the network to a server. This can
be the simple mounting of a remote volume and backing up to a file, or
you can use FTP to a remote system to back up the data. There is also
client/server backup where you install the client on your Mac and
Retrospect running on another system backups up your Mac over the
network. And of course restores can be complete, or partial; back to
the original location, or to a subdirectory in order to recover an old
version of a file.

Retrospect. Good stuff.

MacInTouch has a forum on backup issues at:
http://www.macintouch.com/backup01.html
which might be useful reading.

Good luck, and welcome to Mac OS X.

Bob Harris

> Before transferring vital data to a Mac I need to be able to do the same as
> I do with a Windows PC.
>
>
> dan

In article <d2kdbj$74m$1@titan.btinternet.com>,
"Dan" <dan.mitchell@antispam.virgin.net> wrote:

> Is there for Mac OS 10 x ( Mac Mini), any backup program like that for PCs,
> something like "Norton Ghost" or backup programs by Powerquest, i.e. "Drive
> Image" I mean a program that can make and when required, restore the
> complete bootable image of a disc partition.

A Norton Ghost type of feature is built in for OS X users? Just open up
the "Disk Utility" item and use the "restore disk" feature to make an
exact copy of one disk to another disk of the same size or larger.