Cloning, then restoring drive

I have a question. My friend has a MacBook. She recently suffered a HDD crash, and had a backup, but lost about 2 weeks worth of email, etc. So, I had her get an external drive, and I'm going to make a clone with Super Duper.
She is also getting a new iMac, and the question I have is this.. can I take her MacBook clone and just use Super Duper to copy it back to her iMac? She wants to have identical installations. I'm not sure if there would be a problem since one is a MacBook and the other is an iMac.
Any ideas?

I would suggest going to bombich.com and downloading either Carbon Copy Cloner or NetRestore. Both of these applications should provide you with a solution. You can also use Disk Utility to make an image of the MacBook and Restore it to the iMac. I often use NetRestore to put software on multiple models. Currently, I have installed successfully on eMacs, iMacs (intel and PPC), MacBooks and iBooks. Just make sure that when you restore from a disk image, that you are restoring to the same Processor type. You can't restore a PPC image to an Intel Machine and vice versa.

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Hello, dear experts!
I am trying to duplicate a database.
First step was to use the DBCA to create a template. Because there is no downtime possible, I only created a template of the structure without user schema and without objects.
At another destination I used this template to create a new database "CLON".
This worked successful. The database is up and running. (But quite empty).
Then I transferred the latest full backup of my source database to the new database. I have the same structure at the destiantion as at the
source.
Now I want to use rman restore to build up the clone with this backup. Therefore I start RMAN and connect to the target without catalog.
"RMAN> restore database;"
leads to:
Starten restore um 27.09.07
Kanal ORA_DISK_1 wird benutzt
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
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RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 709 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 708 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 707 found to restore
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does not show any results.
"RMAN> crosscheck backup;"
Zugewiesener Kanal: ORA_DISK_1
Kanal ORA_DISK_1: SID=17 Gerõtetyp=DISK
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does not show any results.
To me this looks as if RMAN does not identify the/any backup.
What has to be done to solve the problem?
Thank you in advance,
Hergen.

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As a note, your new database does not see the backups because you do not connect to the catalog, and you have no backup info as a result.
Correct me if I am wrong if I misundestand your situation:
First if you want to duplicate, you do not need to create an empty DB. Just create an new instance without any controlfiles or datafiles. Then you restore your rman backup
You could perhaps adapt this procedure I have used recently to clone databases with RMAN backups: You just need RMAN backups, taken as hot backups is fine. You also need the controlfile autobackup from RMAN. If you do not want to use the catalog, you can use the controlfile as catalog, and register the backup info to the controlfile, then restore.
Here is the procedure:
RMAN RESTORE DB FROM COMPLETE LOSS (without use of catalog)
1-     Install oracle db home and patch.
Note: As much as possible, patch to the same version of the DB to be restored. If you do not, you should patch to a later release (do not do this if at all possible, as problems may occur). After opening with reset logs, you will have to startup with the upgrade option and run the cat upgrade script to update the DB to the current patchset.
2-     Install or configure an instance on the desired node. It is not necessary to create a database.
a.     Run oradim to create the instance.
Oradim –new –SID sid –SYSPWD sysdbapass –STARTMODE manual|automatic –PFILE ‘….path to pfile….\initsid.ora’
NOTE: The pfile is optional, required if you do not use a spfile
b.     Create and configure a listener, as rman requires oracle net connectivity.
i.     Use oracle utilities to create listener.
ii.     Use oracle utilities to configure listener to register the instance just created. (or manually edit the listener.ora file).
c.     Configure a tnsnames.ora file so that rman can reach the database through the listener.
d.     Create all directories for datafiles, admin, redologs, archive, flash_recovery_area etc if required.
3-     Create a pfile or get one (ideally the backups should include it).
a.     Change paths in the pfile to reflect new file structure. Also change any settings that are relevant.
Note: if using an spfile, then the rman controlfile autobackup will have it. In that case startup in nomount, start RMAN after setting ORACLE_SID=sid, with ‘RMAN target / NOCATALOG.
Run this in rman
RUN {
SET CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO ‘………………..\CONTROL_%F’;
RESTORE SPFILE TO PFILE ‘………\initsid.ora’ FROM AUTOBACKUP;
SHUTDOWN ABORT;
NOTE:
-     If you do not have a specific archive file location (archivelog mode only) the flash recovery area size may need to be increased, depending on the number of archive files to recover.
-     If restoring to a different instance (want to restore an old backup to a different db name, set the db_name in the pfile the same as the db name in the backups. You can rename the db later.
4-     Get the backups desired to restore the DB, and make them available to the node where the restore is to be done.
5-     Startup the database in nomount mode. Startup the service is necessary, then startup the database in nomount mode: specify the pfile location if not in a standard location.
‘STARTUP NOMOUNT PFILE=’……\initsid.ora’’;
6-     Get DB id from controlfile autobackup. Get the most recent controlfile autobackups from the backup files, and find the database id. Below is an example
# CONTROL_c-XXXXXXXXXX-YYYYMMDD-ZZ
# XXXXXXXXXX IS THE DBID
7-     START RMAN after setting ORACLE_SID=sid, with ‘RMAN target / NOCATALOG’.
8-     SET DBID. Get the dbid from above. Run ‘SET DBID XXXXXXXXXXXX;’
9-     Restore controlfile
RUN {
SET CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '… \CONTROL_%F';
RESTORE CONTROLFILE FROM AUTOBACKUP;
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;
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10-     Catalog backup files. It is probable that the backup files restored will be in a different location once restored (applicable to disk backups). You need to catalog them in RMAN so that RMAN knows about them. List all backup files and run these commands for each backup and controlfile autobackup:
‘CATALOG BACKUPPIECE ….\CONTROL_C-310452700-20070918-01';’
‘CATALOG BACKUPPIECE …\BACKUP_HEIS8FIK_1_1';
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If the backups were restored to a different location, then a recatalog must be done so that RMAN can find them. If the regular location of backups is not available, then rman needs to be updated to reflect that. In that case run these commands:
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     DELETE EXPIRED BACKUP;
     CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL;
     DELETE EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;
If this is test restore (to test disaster recovery for example), likely all the backups are still there, but it is desired to use the restored backup files only. RMAN needs to be updated to reflect that the regular backups do not exist. Make the regular backup files unavailable to RMAN (such are renaming a directory, or preventing access through security), and then run the above commands.
11-     Find the datafile names and numbers. This is only required if datafiles are in a different location on the database to be restored.
Using SQLPlus, set the oracle_sid, then run sqlplus / ;
Run the following command
     Select file# as “file/grp#’, name from v$datafile; (for datafiles).
     Select group#, member from v$logfile. (for redologs)
12-     Restore the database
(use only if all datafile locations are the same!)
RUN
# allocate a channel to disk
ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 DEVICE TYPE DISK MAXPIECESIZE 2 G FORMAT '…path…\BACKUP_%U';
RESTORE DATABASE;
RECOVER DATABASE;
(use if datafiles are not in the same location)
RUN
ALLOCATE CHANNEL C1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘…\BACKUP_%U';
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO ‘….\SYSTEM01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO '…\UNDOTBS01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO '…\SYSAUX01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO '…\USERS01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 5 TO '…\TOOLS_01.DBF ';
# add other tablespace locations here.
# We need to tell the controlfile the new location for the redologs
SQL "ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE ''…\REDO01.LOG'' TO      ''…\REDO01.LOG''";
SQL "ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE ''…\REDO02.LOG'' TO      ''…\REDO02.LOG''";
SQL "ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE ''…\REDO03.LOG'' TO      ''…\REDO03.LOG''";
RESTORE DATABASE;
# we need to tell the controlfile the location of the new datafiles.
SWITCH DATAFILE ALL;
RECOVER DATABASE;
13-     Reset the logs. ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;
NOTE: If the oracle home is of a newer revision then the database, the open resetlogs will generate an error. In that case open the database with the upgrade option and then run the catalog upgrade as per patch instructions.
14-     Create a temporary tablespace. The system thinks it has a temp tablespace, but it needs to be recreated
a.     Create another temp tablespace (modify as needed).
     CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp2
          TEMPFILE '......\temp02.dbf' SIZE 128M REUSE
          AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 16M MAXSIZE unlimited
          EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 1M;
b.     Point the server to the new file
ALTER DATABASE DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp2;
c.     Delete the missing one:
          DROP TABLESPACE temp INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;
d.     RECREATE THE temp tablespace;
          CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp
               TEMPFILE 'd:\......\temp_01.dbf' SIZE 128M REUSE
          AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 16M MAXSIZE unlimited
          EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 1M;
e.     Change system default tablespace again to temp:
          ALTER DATABASE DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp;
f.     Delete the transition temp tablespace temp2:
DROP TABLESPACE temp2 INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;
15-     Rename the database if the restored database name needs to change.
Use the nid utility to rename the db. IMPORTANT: the temporary tablespace needs to exist for this to work, or the db rename will fail and a restore will have to be done.
Use :
-     Shutdown database in immediate mode.
-     Startup in nomount.
-     Open command prompt.
-     set oracle_sid = sid
-     nid sys/pass dbname=newname logfile=….\logfile.txt
-     shutdown the db (if required)
-     Change the dbname in the pfile or spfile to the new dbname
-     Create a new password file:
o     Orapwd file=….. password=…
IMPORTANT NOTE: if you rename a DB, your existing backups will not be valid, do backups of the newly renamed db!!!
16-     Open the database and test.
NOTE: Whenever you open with resetlogs, YOU MUST BACKUP YOUR DATABASE. Your old backups can only be used to restore the old DB.
I hope this helps.

What's the best way to use a cloned Snow Leopard drive with an iBook?

My aging and ailing MacBook Pro is going in for Apple Care.
I've made a clone of its hard drive and would like to keep working this week using an iBook G4. Alas, an external drive with Snow Leopard will not boot from an iBook. I did format the drive as an Apple Partition Map, so I can see it from the iBook and work with its files--but it will not start up from it.
I forsee screw-ups as I work with some programs and files on the iBook and others off the hard drive. Eudora, e.g., requires its In Box and Out Boxes to reside on the boot drive; many of my favorite programs take their settings from the start up computer, not the external drive. That means there will be all sorts of settings-- e.g., Word, Excel's, iKey's --that will need setting on the iBook or copying over to it.
Alternatively, I could downgrade the external drive to Leopard or even Tiger so I can boot from it and work with the files that way. I think that will require having to reformat the external drive--which means no direct cloning of the MBP drive to it! It also would preclude an easy 1-step restore (I'd have to clone it back to the MBP and then upgrade to SL).
Unsure which way makes the most sense-- or if there's another way I haven't thought of. I do have additional hard drives to play with (e.g., I made another SL clone of the entire MBP drive).
Any ideas, suggestions welcome!

AstroMacMan wrote:
Appreciate that extra tidbit, although that's not exactly true, is it? I mean, I had a cloned Leopard MBP and a cloned Tiger hard drive that do boot from the iBook!
If we could distinguish and separate the hardware drivers, download them from Apple etc., then it could be said we can use a clone on another model of Mac provided: A, B and C are met.
But since Apple has changed from OS 9 to OS X, PowerPC 32 bit to 64 bit, PowerPC to to Intel 32 bit, Intel 32 bit to 64 bit, locks the drivers to certain install disk versions and changes hardware around constantly, including changing the OS and making it not run on earlier versions of hardware, sideways stuff like A4/A5 processors, causing such a cluster mess of confusion and obscuration that it's better to say NOT than trying to find the tiny possibilities that it can happen.
If it does happen, lucky you, likely won't happen for any duration worth relying upon.

2008 MB with APM (not GUID), Clean install or Backup then restore?

I have a mid-2008 Macbook that has the Apple Partition Map as it's primary partition. It appears as tho when I did a disk upgrade a few months back for some reason it got switched from GPT to APM. Not sure how, but that's a different topic. Since SL will not install over APM, I must go through a disk partition effort.
So, I'm fairly new to Macs but as far as I can tell my options are:
1. Backup disk (Time Machine), repartition, reinstall from scratch (same as 1), then restore from backup.
2. Clone disk to another same size disk, repartition original disk using GPT, then clone back to original disk, then install Snow Leopard.
Which one should I go with? Frankly, I'd prefer NOT to have to reinstall everything, is #2 it even feasable? If I restore from backup (time machine) is my computer restored back to its original state? all apps, bookmarks, etc?? A time consuming process is not what I'm looking for, so getting the system up and running ASAP is what I'm all about. I have a spare 500gb USB drive for backup I can use.
Since I'm not a mac guy by nature any guidance is appreciated.

netslacker2000,
Ah, but you didn't mention the fact that cloning was involved. Details are important! Yes, what you are describing is possible, and is in fact the method that must be used to create a "dual boot" external drive that will boot both an Intel machine and a PPC one.
But, let's clarify something right off the bat, so that there is no longer any confusion... A partition is not and will not have either a GUID format or an APM one. It is the partition mapping scheme that describes the partitions created on a drive, and thus it is a lower level aspect of the data written to a drive. The only exception to this is a rare one; it is the case that you find yourself facing right now. I'll try to explain as well as I can what is going on.
As I stated above, the mapping scheme- either the GUID scheme or the Apple Partition Mapping scheme (APM)- is the portion of a drive's underlying directory structure that describes what logical volumes exist on that drive. Intel machines can read either, but require a GUID mapping scheme in order to boot to the drive. PPC Macs can read either, but require a drive with the APM scheme.
However, since an Intel Mac is perfectly capable of mounting an APM drive, there is one way to "spoof" that Intel machine by a careful use of cloning. Under normal circumstances, a clone is made by reproducing one volume to another volume, or one drive to another drive. In this case, however, a drive has been cloned to a volume. The result is, in effect, like having a drive within a drive.
A volume cloned in this way will have its own partition map, its own volumes. So, in this way, one can "shoe horn" a GUID partition map- and any volumes that map describes- into a single volume contained on another drive. Is this at least a little clearer than mud?
So what do we do about it? Hmm, should be easy enough to fix. Let's stay away from cloning though, shall we? If I were in your shoes, I would first resort to restoring from Time Machine. I'm not sure how your current predicament may have affect Time machine, and your ability to restore the full system from it, but keep in mind that you can always just start fresh with a clean installation of Snow Leopard, using the Migration Assistant to pull your user data from the TM backup.
1) Boot to your Leopard install DVD (not the Snow Leopard DVD!). Insert the disk, then restart and hold the "C" key. When the installer loads, select a language, then open Disk Utility from the "Utilities" menu.
2) In Disk Utility, select your drive in the list on the left (select the drive, not the named volume that will appear indented below). Switch to the "Partition" tab. First, open the pull-down menu and change it from "current" to "Single Partition." Next, click the "Options..." button, and use the dialogue sheet that will appear to select "GIUD." Confirm your choice to dismiss the dialogue, choose "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" as the format for the new volume that will be created, choose an appropriate name for the new volume, then click "Apply." Quit Disk Utility to return to the installer.
3) Once back in the installer, go back to the "Utilities" menu and choose "Restore from a Time Machine Backup." Connect your TM backup drive, and wait for it to be scanned for backups. Select the backup you wish to use (I would assume the latest one), then wait to select a destination. This can take a couple to a few minutes, since the backup you choose must be "weighed" according to its size, to determine where it can be restored. When you are able, choose your newly created volume as a destination, then click "Restore."
If all goes as it should, you will end up restarting to the restored installation of 10.5. Yes, absolutely everything will be restored (all user data, all applications, etc., etc.). You can then prepare to install Snow Leopard over this restored installation.
You will be anxious, at this point, to get to the installation of Snow Leopard. Do not rush into this!! First, I recommend you allow your computer to completely re-index your hard drive. This is something that is done any time you restore from a TM backup. Watch your Spotlight icon at the right side of your Menu Bar. When it stops "pulsing," the indexing is complete and you may continue with your preparations.
Next, open Disk Utility, select your startup volume (the volume this time, not the drive itself) and click "Repair Disk Permissions." Allow this to complete. It may take quite some time; it usually does after a restore from TM.
You are now ready to install Snow Leopard. Insert the Snow Leopard disk, open it up, and double-click the "Install" icon. Follow the instructions, and you are on your way to a new version of OS X!
Scott

Cloning my Lion Drive questions

I decided to clone my drive after upgrading to Lion weeks ago on my iMac mid 2011, just in case my Hard Drive should
break down. My Mid 2011 came with Snow Leopard. So, eventually, would I restore back from clone (which, if a true clone, would have
the two partitions already on it). Or, is it useless doing a Lion clone? ie I would hope that it is a simple as how I used to do my SL clones.
Hopefully,, I don't have to go and reload SL from disk, update to Lion,, and do backup from TM as my only option. Thanks

Stoker wrote:
CorkyO2 wrote:
FWIW,
Creating the clone by partitioning the destination drive with one partition and then using the restore feature in Disk Utility while booted from the Lion installer on the flash drive (and subsequent restoring of the clone back to the original machine) always results in the inclusion of both the Recovery HD partition and the OS X Lion partition.
I have tested and retested this when booting from all three versions of a Lion install disc (flash drive, external HD and a DVD). All work exactly the same. The clone (in my case) is kept on an external HD and I connect using FW800. Works every time.
Note - I don't use CCC or SuperDuper, so can't comment on those.
Ok,,, so I gather that my first hypothesis can't be carried out ie; just cloning my Lion clone back to internal formatted drive, because it will not create the Lion Recovery partition.. So,, I will try Corky02 method. I already had made a usb Lion Recovery (think I will also do a DVD one also). So,, please correct if I am mistaken. I use the usb Lion recovery to apply to my HD. By doing that, it installs 2 partitions on my Drive, one Clean Lion OS,, plus one Recovery partition.. Then, I can go in to boot mode,, look for Macintosh HD,, and replace that with my clone? Correct?
Then it sounds like CCC and Superduper have lost some of their effectiveness .
If you boot from the Lion install disc (USB flash drive or DVD), you would then use the Utilities/Disk Utility to partition the drive you want to install OS X Lion on (I always name mine 'Macintosh HD', but you can use a different name if you wish). After partitioning, you quit Disk Utility and are returned to the OS X Lion installer - which you would run to install Lion. The end result is a clean install of Lion which also includes the small partition named 'Recovery HD'.
Note - the 'Recovery HD' is only visible when booting to the boot option screen by pressing 'Option' during start up (or when viewed by some other utilities like iDefrag).
Once you have your OS X Lion set-up with whatever you want included in the clone (e.g., applications, music, pictures, files, etc.). You can then boot from the USB flash drive or DVD to create your clone. I create the clone with the following steps:
1 - Connect external drive which is to be the destination for clone image.
2 - Boot from OS X Lion install disc.
3 - Invoke Disk Utility (Utilities menu > Disk Utility).
4 - Partition the external drive with 1 partition for destination of clone.
5 - Click the 'Restore' tab in Disk utility.
6 - Select the partition I want to clone (in my case the 'Macintosh HD' partition) - which automatically populates the 'Source' field in Restore dialog.
7 - Drag the partition on the external drive to the 'Destination' field.
8 - Click 'Restore' and confirm 'Erase' in pop-up dialog.
The above steps assume there is only 1 partition on the destination drive. This will result in a clone which includes both the OS X Lion partition and the (hidden) Recovery HD partition.
You can then restore both partitions by first creating '1 Partition' on your intended destination drive (typically the internal drive) and using the 'Restore' tab to set the clone as the source and the internal as the destination, which will result in a OS X Lion partition (including all applications, music, pictures, files, etc., that you included in the clone) and the (hidden) Recovery HD partition.
Note - if you do not first partition the destination drive before attempting to restore the clone, I am not sure that you will end up with a functioning system. I say this because I have not tested that, so please only use my steps if you intend to partition with only 1 partition when trying to either create the original clone or restore the system from said clone.
I hope that was clear.

Hi, i wanted to resize my windows partion. I was thinking of using the default backup system for windows. Then switching to mac partion, deleting the bootcamp and then restoring a new enlarged partion from the backup. Is this possible?

hi,
i wanted to resize my windows partition. I was thinking of using the default backup system for windows. Then switching to mac partion, deleting the bootcamp and then restoring a new enlarged partition from the backup. Is this possible?

I see youhave gotten recommendatons for using WinClone or CampTune. I have used both and they both work well.
You have asked about using the WIndows 7 utility to backup your drive and restor it onto a larger partition. I will tell you fro experience that this will probably not do what you want, and may do something that you don't want. You can use the Windows 7 native backup tool to make a backup of your Windows 7 partition. It will most liekly end-up making a dive image of the whole drive. When yourestore that backup, it will try to re-create teh partitions of exactly the same size as they were when the backup was taken, so it won't increase your partition size for you. Worse, since Windows doesn't natively know how to read./write HFS+ volumes, the backup will make a partition for your MacOS (replacing any you may have now), except that the copy restored by WIndows will be totally worthless, and you will not be able to boot MacOS from it, or even read it under MacOS.
Now I will tell you that I've also had some fairly good success working with the free tool CloneZilla. Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, and everything else mentioned does cost you money, I thought I would throw it out. CloneZilla is not as easy to use as the tools mentioned, but it has worked for me int hte past, so it is something to consider. I tend to use CampTune myself, but that was because I purchased a bundle deal for them and it was included in that deal.

Quick boot question -- cloned a bootable drive in latest Tiger, can i.....

I cloned a bootable drive in latest Tiger version; if i install Leopard on my Powerbook will i still be able to boot from that Tiger drive?? in essence i guess i would have two different platforms running on my Powerbook -- doesn't seem like it would work the more i think about it....hmmmmm.
thanks appleheads!
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e to the d wrote:
if i install Leopard on my Powerbook will i still be able to boot from that Tiger drive??
You can't install a second OS on your PB. However your clone should boot your PB from the disk it's on. Just connect that disk, then in System Preferences >> Startup disk, choose it and restart.
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Well, it's certainly behaving as though the phone that was backed up was synced to a different iTunes library.
I'm going to throw one more thing out there... Yes, you backed it up to this computer... Was the phone previously set up to sync with this computer? Or was it syncing with a different computer and you just backed it up to this one?
You may have to end up setting it up as a new device and rebuilding the phone by manually re-syncing your data, apps, music, etc. to the phone.
Trying to keep your library on a different drive can be tricky. If iTunes starts up and the library isn't available, it may end up generating a new library ID, meaning that you could easily find yourself in exactly the position you're in now...
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Cloning the essbase drive

Hi All,
I have to replace the existing Essbase HDD drive with new one. Our OS is in Linux and we are in Hyperion 11.1.2.1 version.
Could you please suggest the standard method to do the same.
1) Shall i do the fresh installation on new drive and do the Essbase migration
or
2)
     2.1) Stop all Hyperion services
     2.2) Take the full Essbase backup
     2.3) Request my IT to clone the existing Essbase drive to the new one
     2.4) Start all Hyperion services
     2.5) Test the functionality
Could you please suggest if i missed anything, this is the first time i am going to try this.
Please suggest which is the standard and safe method, i have referred oracle documentation, but couldn't find anything on the same.
Thank you,
PC

If it is just the disk being cloned then option 2 should work because in theory there is nothing different once you bring the system back online.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Cloning the main drive

I'm thinking of replacing the 250gb drive that game with my mac pro with at least a 500gb drive.
What's the best way to duplicate the main drive onto the new disk. I was thinking of taking the new drive and placing it in bay 4. (which is currently open) Duplicating the System drive and them replacing it.
Thoughts?

You can install the new drive in any bay. Your startup drive may be in any bay. You can clone as follows:
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
8. Select the destination drive on the Desktop and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom in the Ownership and Permissions section be sure the box labeled "Ignore Permissions on this Volume" is unchecked. Verify the settings for Ownership and Permissions as follows: Owner=system with read/write; Group=admin with read/write; Other with read-only. If they are not correct then reset them.
Be sure to prep the new drive properly:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive.

I cloned my internal drive to a larger drive... bootcamp issues...

MacBookPro unibody 2.66... 10.5.8
i want to swap a larger drive into my laptop... old 320g for a 7200rpm 500g...
i cloned my internal drive to the larger externally enclosed drive... it took 4.5 hours with copycatx...
before i physically swap the two drives, i want to be sure i can do the following...
i'll need to use the new available free space (167g...) for at least one new mac partition to run as a separate boot-up...
i understand there are issues with bootcamp when either resizing or partitioning....
i took a look with disk utility to see the free space and perhaps format that space for the other mac bootup... i saw a warning that bootcamp might get affected...
i then took a look with drive genius.... when i looked at the repartitioning page, i saw no warning...
i formatted the free space as journaled hfs+...
when i attempt to run "vmware fusion" to launch the windows partition i get an error of the partition not meeting it's original specs... something like that... i tried a few things from within "vmware fusion"... reassigning the windows partition... importing... nothing doing...!
my question is for someone who has specifically done a cloning of a dual boot disk drive onto a larger drive, swapped out the drives and has successfully commandeered the remaining free space as a new mac partition...
seems like something that should be easy enuff to do....?
but perhaps it needs a more exact path for success...
help....?
thank you...
M

Hi M,
a later done partitioning to add additional partitions to a harddisk alters the position of the BootCamp partition in the partition table so that the Windows Bootloader can not 'find' the Windows partition.
With Windows XP it helped to simply edit the Boot.Ini file and point it to the WIndows partition.
With Vista and Windows 7 there no longer is a boot.ini but EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 can do the same.
One thing to remember though is, that even Vista and Windows 7 'suffer' from the limitation of four partitions on one harddisk immenent to the Master Boot Record (MBR) since Apple EFI/GPT/MBR emulation can not handle Extended Partitions and Logical Partitions inside an Extended Partition.
Regards
Stefan

Can i upgrade to 10.6 snow leopard then restore files with time machine?

I have an early 2006 iMac with 10.5.8, and I am having hard drive problems. I want to reformat my drive, then install 10.6. Can I do that, then restore my files with Time Machine? Will it restore applications?

Yes, you can use Migration Assistant or Setup Assistant. When you launch SL for the first time it will ask if you are migrating from another Mac, select yes and then indicate the TM drive. Connect the TM drive to the machien and let it migrate what you want (Settings, Apps, Data etc..). It's important to connect the TM drive via USB or Firwire, DO NOT select Wi-Fi.

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