HT4889 Can I make a bootable backup of my machine and OS on a Firewire drive? If so, how? Thanks.

I waqnt to make abootable backup of My OS Lion and internal hard drive on an external FW800 hard drive, I can use it if the Mac crashes, so I can re-install the OS and all my software on the Mac.
Is this possible?
Also, I used time machine on an external drive from my old MBP 10.5.8 to move all my stuff to my new iMac 10.7 when I started it. Sincee then I've installed 5 more programs on my MBP. They are in the applications folder.amd are backed up in the MBP's latest time machine backup.
How can I get these 5 programs into my iMac?
Any suggestions.
Thanks.

Thanks everybody.
How do I start a new question on here as it's very helpful.
I need to get an external drive for the iMac (we've got lots of USB 2 drives from over the years, and two 1TB mini drives for backing up via the MBP when we're filming abroad).
2 options:
1) Buy a Lacie eSata thunderbolt hub. 2 x eSata inputs and 2 thunderbolt outs for daisy chaining and second screen. Cost £170.
Then buy (2 x) Verbatim 2 TB eSata drives which also have USB2 outputs so we could use with the MBP and in college.
2) Just buy a 4 TB thunderbolt drive. Lacie (2big) is about £440. There's a WD a little cheaper but it's apparently a little slower.
The pegasus raid 5 6TB is meant to be the fastest but too pricey for us at the mo.
Any ideas? (or any idea where I can ask this question?)
I would like to compare the R and W speeds for these vs USB2 and FW800.
Not the theoreticals, I know those.
But when I spoke to Lacie they said:
USB2 45 MB/s
FW800 80 MB/s
eSata (via their hub) 115 MB/s
Lacie 2big Thunderbolt 320 MB/s write. 500 MB/s read (and as it will mostly be for getting files into FCP, this is the most important).
so thunderbolt drive would be almost 3x as fast as eSata and eSata would only be 50% faster that FW800
But on the web I saw 2big Lacie at about 200-250 MB/s.
Also, as you can have 2eSata's plugged into the hub and it won't slow it down, I could spread the capture scratch over 2 eSata drives. Or have raw footage on one, and logged-and-transferred on the other if I'm mixing them. Or have files on one, and write the render, project, autosave etc to the other.
Any idea which option is best?
What speeds would I get in the real world.
If anyone can help on this too it would be really appreciated.
But thanks to all who helped with the last problem.
All the best, chaps.

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I am about to create a backup in which two computers backup onto a single external hard drive. my understanding is that if i have to restore the entire drive, i have to boot the computer with an install disk and then get it to recover from the backup drive. i can only imagine how long a restore will take with a computer running off the install disk.
is there a way to have the backup drive somehow have an OS so i could boot from it so that it is running my computer AND restoring to it at the same time?
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yes it's possible but won't speed things up by much. It will mainly speed up the booting time of the backup not the restore process itself. I've done it and I see no difference in time. to do this you can make a clone of the leopard install DVD on your hard drive. create a small partition on one of your internal drives. next insert the install DVD and open Disk Utility. click on "restore" tab. select the DVD as the source (the name not the model) and the partition you've made as the target. click 'restore". Once finished you'll have a bootable copy of the install DVD on your hard drive. You can boot from that and do a full system restore from TM of your main hard drive. Of course this is only needed when doing full system restore. normal restore from TM doesn't require booting from TM and is done simply by activating TM.
P.S. You can also make a bootable clone of your entire hard drive using CCCloner or Superduper! that's a different backup mechanism from TM but is often helpful.
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I am given the task to make a bootable backup of the OS (Solaris 9). I know I can use ufsdump to backup the system in single user mode. However, to make a backup bootable, shall I backup the file system to a DVD? Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
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i call it cloning the disk . you can install boot block as mentioned in second solution of cloning disk
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# /usr/sbin/installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0
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dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s2 bs=2048
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dd on disks with different vendors and it function well) and if it the disk
are the same size my opinion is to use the dd command because it is easier
to be done. Anyway if the disk are not from the same size or vendor it could
be done also with ufsdump and ufsrestore. Here how it works and what I did
if your would like to clone a disk with ufsdump and ufsrestore:
For testing we have two disks:
     c1t2d0     (Source Disk)
     c1t2d1     (Destination Disk)
The source disk has the following layout (slice 4 and 5 are for Disksuite
metadb's but are not initialized or configured):
     0 root wm 0 - 634 471.29MB (635/0/0)
965200
     1 var wm 635 - 2014 1.00GB (1380/0/0)
2097600
     2 backup wm 0 - 2732 1.98GB (2733/0/0)
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     3 swap wu 2015 - 2704 512.11MB (690/0/0)
1048800
     4 unassigned wm 2705 - 2718 10.39MB (14/0/0)
21280
     5 unassigned wm 2719 - 2732 10.39MB (14/0/0)
21280
     6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
     7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
On our testsystem the disk are the same size. Firstable the layout/label
from the source disk must be copied to the destination disk because with
ufsdump and ufsrestore this information will not be transfered to the
destination disk because this commands are based on filesystem. This is also
a difference between dd and ufsdump because dd copies also the information
from labels and layouts because this command is based on blocks and not on
filesystem. Here it is how it wors to copy the information from
layout/label:
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     # fmthard -s /tmp/z /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0
     fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.
The slice 0 from the destination disk has now the same layout like the
source disk. This could be controlled with the command:
     # format
To transfer the information from slice 0 source disk to the slice 0
destination disk the destination disk must be prepared to work on it. It
means at the moment there is no filesystem on this disk. To do this use the
command newfs. No option are neccessary because for default the filesystem
would be ufs. Only the raw device/slice must given to the command that newfs
knows what exactly must be don:
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     newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0: (y/n)? Y
Now we have a filesystem on slice 0 and we could mount the slice 0. This
would be made with the command mount and option -F for filesystem = ufs and
-o for read or write = rw and at least which slice = 0. At the end of the
command is the device with the slice which must be mounted:
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Now the device is mounted. With the following command ufsdump 0f = slice 0
and / = partition the filesystem / would be dumped. The whole dump would be
piped (I hope this is the correct english word) to the command ufsrestore
which would be executed in the mounted directory ufsresore and extracts the
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     Add links
     Set directory mode, owner, and times.
     set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] y
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     DUMP: 405886 blocks (198.19MB) on 1 volume at 406 KB/sec
     DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
After given the command, the partition / from source disk and / from the
destination disk looks based on files absolutly the same but there is a
information which MUST be changed and it is the information in "/etc/vfstab"
because on the destination disk in this file are the information from the
source disk (it means source disk will be mounted on the device c1t2d0 and
the destination diks on the device c1t2d1). This information must be changed
in "/etc/vfstab" on the destination disk:
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     ---------- /mnt/etc/vfstab ----------
     #device device mount FS fsck
mount mount
     #to mount to fsck point type pass at
boot options
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     fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
     /proc - /proc proc - no -
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no
     /dev/dsk/c1t2d1s1 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1 /var ufs 1
no
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Now we changed the information and the work is done on slice 0. We can now
umount the slice 0:
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Proceed with the other slice similar like explained before. In our example
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     newfs: /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1 last mounted as /var
     newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1: (y/n)? y
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Slice 4 and 5 are in our example not importante because this slice as
explained are for Disksuite metadb's and on the source disk there are at the
moment no information and no filesystem because Disksuite was not
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From: Frances Topping <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: - Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.
Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:46:01 AM EDT
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