Bootable backup tape.

Is there any way in Solaris 10 to create a bootable backup tape like "mksysb" in AIX or "make_recovery" in HP-UX. I looked through the commmands and didn't see anything at first glance.

if you are looking for the bare metal recovery or cloning part of mksysb you can have a look at flarcreate. It can make an image to a streamer while the system is in production. To recover the image you need a Solaris installation CD. This is the best thing I found so far since I looked for something similar like HP's Ignite make recovery...

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    Hi - First, I apologize for asking a question that's already been discussed so much.  I did try to read everything I could, but I remain confused.  Here is my precise situation:
    I have an iMac, and I purchased a year's worth of Carbonite's online backup and breathed a sigh of relief.  Then I read some people have problems with Carbonite, and the best advice was to buy an external hard drive, which I did.  It just arrived, I plugged it in, and Time Machine backed up my computer on it...so I breathed another sigh of relief. 
    Then I read that my wonderful new 2T external hard drive isn't good enough, that I should partition it so as to have one backup, and one "bootable backup."  Is this really necessary?  And what is the difference between a backup, and a bootable backup?  If it is necessary, how do I do it?  Is it a problem that I've already used it to create a backup on Time Machine?
    I use my computer for things like email, Facebook, pictures, eBay, stuff like that.  I have no unusual needs.  My computer is an iMac OS X 10.6.8.
    Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

    I prefer a clone/bootable backup ovver Time Machine myself.
    For TM you need a running OS, then time to restore, with a clone you can boot from that & keep working while doing the other when time is better. And you can test a clone before you need it.
    Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
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    Or SuperDuper...
    http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
    You would need to Partition your drive though.
    How to format your disks...
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    http://Pondini.org/OSX/DU.html

  • Creating a Bootable Backup in ML

    I've been doing a bit a reading here, but I am still unsure of what I need to do.  I recetnly upgraded from Snow Leopard to ML, but I want to create a bootable (mirror)  backup on an external drive.  I have always used SuperDuper to do this.  Super Duper claims that it's latest version will create a bootable backup of ML. My backups in the past have been a bootable mirror of my drive and not the OS alone.  Am I better off just redownloading ML and creating a bootable thumb drive of ML or would I be ok mirroring my drive with ML on it as a bootable backup.  I hope this was clear...
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    The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant is an app. When you Open it, you have the opportunity to create a Recovery HD on a thumb drive for whichever OS X you're currently booted into. Just the Recovery HD and not the entire installation of OS X. The Recovery HD is created and hidden when you install OS X. SuperDuper! doesn't clone this. Here is some reading for the Recovery HD in Mountain Lion. It's the same for Lion. If the Recovery HD isn't on your system, you won't have the ability to boot into it for recovery purposes. So the Recovery Disk Assistant gives you this ability via a thumb drive.
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  • Creating a bootable backup for upgrade to Lion

    I've read some articles and watched some videos on how to create a disk of my drive from the disk utility. Is that a good way to create a bootable backup of my Mac Mini? I also want to have all my applications transferred over to Lion, though I know how to do that in the installation of the OS. But I want a fresh install over Snow Leopard and reinstall my apps from that bootable disk, again is that possible? If this can work, how can I know for sure if the backup works?

    Spinland wrote:
    Then what CSound1 said: use CCC to clone your drive to another disk for safekeeping, then install Lion and enjoy. All of your apps will still be there after the upgrade.
    Have you checked to make sure your apps are Lion compatible? This guide can help you find out:
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    That is not what I said exactly ......
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    5 You're done.

  • Can't reboot to my bootable backup.

    Two days ago I received my new Mac Mini, which is replacing my five-year-old iMac. So far I'm very pleased, with two minor issues just barely dampening my enthusiasm:
    1- The video has "blinked out" a few times. I'm running video via HDMI->HDMI, and I understand this is a fairly common problem generating a lot of user reports here in the forums. I've only seen it three or four times in the two days I've had my Mini, and the "out" time is very brief, about a second, so I can live with this until Apple issues the expected fix.
    2- More serious issue: When I attempt to boot from the bootable backup I created on an external drive, I get the following:
    "You can't change the startup disk to the selected disk. Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed."
    I can't restart to my external drive using the preference pane. I can reboot while holding the option key and then choose the external drive, but the Mini never fully boots after that; it just keeps spinning away on the grey Apple screen forever until I shut it down.
    Any help here would be appreciated, as I don't feel fully comfortable with my data hostage to a single physical device. I'm sure all my personal data is there, but I'd like to be able to get at it by booting from that external drive should the drive* inside my Mini fail.
    Do I need to install Mountain Lion directly onto the external drive to create the "boot helper partition" and then use rsync to complete my bootable backup? Because all I did was format the drive and then use rsync, which is what I've been doing for years now to create bootable backups.
    * = Technically it's two drives, as I have the Apple-installed Fusion Drive. But it is one volume.

    D'oh!
    The external I'm using is a new virgin drive. I had never installed any version of OS X on it before. So yes, it was missing the behind-the-scenes/under-the-carpet magic. I suppose I could have installed Mountain Lion over its contents, but I just did a Carbon Copy Cloner clone operation instead, which has done the trick. I should be able to rsync for my backups to it from here on out.
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  • When I back up to my iomega external drive is this creating a bootable backup?

    I recently noticed in disc utility that my HDD was in red and when I click on it I see the text that reads "this drive has a hard ware problem that can't be repaired". This is a replacement hard drive that I had installed just about a year ago. I guess I will be taking it in to get replaced. I am wondering though, are the backups I am doing on my iomega external hdd "bootable" backups? Will I and how will I be able to get this on to my new hard drive?

    Your fear was wise! NEVER EVER use the same external HD for redundant backups. It is extremely wise to use both a Bootable Clone and TM backup however they should be on separate EHDs. The reason being is if the HD crashes  you have lost all of your backup. EHD's are very cheap these days so just get yourself another and then use both TM and CCC. This is what I (and many many others) do.
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  • Can't erase anything on an external hard disk partition of bootable backup ____error message -50 "Error in user parameter"

    I am using MACOSX 10.6
    The data on the disk partition  on my Iomega 2Tb external hard disk drive (labeled "Bootable Backup") was written by Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC ver. 3.37)
    I have had problems with overwriting this using CCC, and I have also had troubles changeing the data on my "Versioned Backup"  partition, using either CrashPlan or CCC
    A third partition that was virgin ("Half-Tb Volume") on the same external disk drive, however, DID accept the latest CCC bootable backup of my Macintosh HD...which is the reason I want to recover rthe space on the first bootable backup partition.
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    Do a backup using Time Machine or a clone. Then boot into the Recovery Volume (command - R) on a restart. Run Disk Utility Repair disk. If it can't repair the disk, then select the erase tab and reformat using Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Also click the Option button and select GUID. When complete, reboot normally and restore your data.
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  • Does Time Machine make bootable backups?

    I used a beautiful backup program called Backup Simplicity in Tiger that made a bootable Exact duplicate of my HD into my external drive. That's really I want to do.
    This morning I tried Time Machine for the first time. It only put a backup folder on my external drive. That's not what I want to do.
    So here's my question, if I totally erase my external drive will Time Machine make a bootable duplicate of my HD on my external drive also?
    Also, is there a way to schedule Time Machine for backups manually?

    No, TimeMachine doesn't create a bootable backup, nor can it be controlled manually. The purpose of TimeMachine is to work behind the scenes backing up changed files. Later, when you realize something is amiss, you can 'go back in time' and fix the problem. Admittedly, I'm a little shaky on the details of just how flexible the retrieval system is since I've not yet played with that feature yet. But as I understand it, if you installed a new program and your computer suddenly started going nuts, you'll be able to use TimeMachine to restore your computer to the point before you installed that program. Or, if you realize you improperly edited a file, you'll be able to retrieve the file prior to that editing session.
    Apple's team realized three things: 1) most of us don't take the time to perform backups even though we know we should be doing it. 2) most of us don't really understand how to develop a good backup strategy. 3) computers today are so powerful that most of the time the CPU isn't working hard at all and those extra cycles might as well be put to use doing something useful. Hence, TimeMachine's design.
    As you noticed, TimeMachine makes a folder and does its incremental backups inside. Since I have an external drive that is much larger than my boot/data drive, I'll continue to clone my boot drive to this external once a week, just as I've been doing. If disaster strikes and I need to use the computer right now, I can do so and at worst my data will be one week out of date. (I should then be able to use TimeMachine to retrieve the missing data but the important thing is that I'm up and running again as soon as I've rebooted.) Later (or if I have the time right away) I'll use TimeMachine to restore/replace my boot drive.

  • Any recommendations on external hard drive for making bootable backup?

    Hello,
    I wish to make a bootable backup of my MBP before upgrading to Mavericks.
    Are there any external hard drives that are better suited for making bootable backups? I use a WD for making Time Machine backups but I have read that WD is not ideal for making a bootable back up - is this correct...?
    Thanks,
    pinkguava

    your WD will of course,..work fine as a boot clone
    Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5" or  $65 per TB on 2.5"
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    best for cost:
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    http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48 /ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379182740&sr=1-4&keywords=2tb+toshiba
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  • Do i need to re format my external drive if i am planning on using super duper for my  bootable backups or does super duper do that for me?

       do i need to reformat my external drive if i am planning on using superduper for my bootable backups or does superduper do that for me? thanks

    You need to format a external drive using Apple's Disk Utility 
    Partition 1
    Option: GUID
    Format: OS X Extended Journaled.
    Before OS X can be installed or cloned onto the drive, or else it can't be booted from.
    Formatting a drive erases all data on it, so backup up any data you want to retain off the drive.
    I really do not advise SuperDuper for the fact that it doesn't copy the RecoveryHD partition and restore it, as this is needed to reinstall a fresh copy of OS X from Apple's servers.
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    A better, more powerful and more intelligent tool is Carbon Copy Cloner.
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  • Need help setting up automatic bootable backup

    Hello
    I need to set up a bootable backup on a second drive on a G4 XServe running OS X Server 10.3.9. This has to run automatically when no user is logged in to the server, so as far as I can tell, commercial backup software will not run. I'm hoping there's a command line way to do this, that can be invoked as a cron job. In poking around, perhaps ditto or rsync can be used for this, but I'm not familiar enough with these commands to even try. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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  • How to start with bootable backup

    My iMac power button has "ceased function". but I have a bootable backup on one external drive, and also an additional Time Machine drive. Any suggestions on how to use a loaner iMac while this one is being repaired? i.e. - How do I start up with the bootable backup? Do I then change Time Machine to the bootable backup drive? etc. By the way, I am using OS X Mavericks, which is not listed below.

    Option key lets you force booting one drive over another.
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  • Bootable Backup on Intel Macs?

    I read this on the internet. Has anyone checked this out?
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    Shortly after I got my shiny new 20″ Intel iMac I read in a forum somewhere that booting from an external firewire enclosure was no longer supported on the Intel-based Macs. I was disappointed to hear this, because I’ve used this feature on my PowerMac in the past to great advantage, it makes upgrading your system hard drive very easy, and the same would apply to recovering from a hard drive failure.
    I decided to try anyway, so I connected my IoGear Ion external firewire drive to my iMac and started a disk cloning operation using Carbon Copy Cloner, a very popular Mac backup program that works well on my PowerPC based Macs. It kept asking for my Admin password, and it eventually locked up without having finished the backup.
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    Next I bought a shareware license for a program called ChronoSync, which seems to be well written, but also failed at the task of creating a bootable system backup. In a later email exchange with the author of that program I was told that kind of an operation was “not supported”.
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    Well... If you are using CCC, the only way to use it to restore would be to start up from the bootable backup and run CCC from there. Unlike Disk Utility, CCC can clone the disk being used for startup; Disk Utility want the "source" disk to not be "busy." On the other hand, if you are using Disk Utility from the Mac OS Installation Disk, the backup does not need to be bootable. The backup can even be a disk image, which has the advantage of not occupying the entire external drive.
    A bootable backup has several advantages. First, running from an optical disk is slow if you are going to be making backups at regular intervals; I'm not sure if want to boot from the Mac OS X Installation Disk so often. Second, the bootable backup will serve as an emergency boot disk to diagnose problems that you may have with the internal drive. If you buy tools like DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro, you can run them from there.
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    Use CCC to make regular backups of the internal drive to the bootable second partition. As an added precaution, copy just your user directory to the second partition and keep it in sync with the one on the internal drive. You can do this manually, or with a tool like ChronoSync. Why the second user data backup? Because during the time when you are using CCC to clone the internal drive to the first partition, there is risk. At that moment, the previous backup is gone, the new backup is being written, and the "original" is actively being accessed. If there was a internal hard drive failure, or a power failure, you could lose the original and not have a backup. But if you have that user data backup on the second partition, at least you did not lose what's most important. Though inconvenient, you can always spend a day reinstalling the OS and apps from scratch.

  • What is a bootable backup and do i need one? what are partitions good for?

    hello,
    please excuse my ignorance...
    i just got a new lacie external firewire hard drive and it has some software which i was wandering if i have any use for... - SilverKeeper and LaCie Backup Software. i'm not sure if they can give me anything that time machine doesn't do better... SilverKeeper gives the option of cloning a bootable backup. i'm not exactly sure what's the advantage of this and in what case i may need it.
    when i got my last computer i was able to transfer everything from the old computer, including applications, to the new one without having to find all the serial numbers and reinstall them. i thought that time machine will be able to do the same thing if i lose all the data on my computer. is that not so? is that what a bootable clone is for? or what is it for?...
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    SilverKeeper gives the option of cloning a bootable backup. i'm not exactly sure what's the advantage of this and in what case i may need it.
    A bootable backup is an exact copy of your hard drive's contents on another drive, that can be used for booting up the machine. The advantage of a bootable backup is that, in the event something bad happens to your internal drive, you can very quickly get up and running with the backup drive, and can copy that back to a replaced/fixed internal drive very quickly. Time Machine backups are not bootable.
    The disadvantage of a clone of any kind, bootable or not, is that there's only one version of any particular file stored. So if a file gets damaged and then backed up, you're pretty well screwed with the clone, while Time Machine stores many versions of the file, so you just "roll back" to the last working copy.
    when i got my last computer i was able to transfer everything from the old computer, including applications, to the new one without having to find all the serial numbers and reinstall them.
    Bad idea... while this will work for most apps, different machines have different architectures, so some apps may not be installed correctly for the new machine, plus you may not have properly copied some components. You should have reinstalled them.
    i thought that time machine will be able to do the same thing if i lose all the data on my computer. is that not so?
    If you have Time Machine back up the entire hard drive, without excluding anything, then Time Machine should be able to restore your drive to exactly the way it was at any particular moment in time at which it made a backup, including apps, system files, preferences, etc.
    my other question is what are the advantages of making partitions in my new drive (i understand i have to if i want a bootable backup, but is there any reason to partition otherwise?
    You do not have to partition to make a bootable backup. However, you'll be using the entire drive... trying to store additional files on the same drive as a bootable clone is confusing at best. Using a partition allows you to create multiple "virtual" drives... say, one for a bootable backup, one for a Time Machine backup, one for movie files, etc. Of course, this is only advisable if the drive is much larger than the one you're backing up, and note that if you store original files on a partition (like a bunch of movie files), you need a backup of those somewhere else.
    Time Machine will want it's own full drive or partition to play with, which should be larger than the drive being backed up, and will eventually fill it. A bootable clone probably also should go onto its own partition, but you wouldn't need to make this partition larger than the drive being cloned. Other than that, don't worry about partitioning unless you have a specific need.

  • Bootable backup to AirPort disk?

    Is there any backup app that'll do a bootable backup to an AirPort disk?

    von Bordwehr ~
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