Imaging vs cloning

can someone comment on the pros and cons of these options
read somewhere that imaging is more secure
i have 2 ehd and just want to know how best to use them to protect data since i might have to change machines
thx

Well a clone is a direct copy of your drive and usually is bootable. So if that drive is connected to any Mac by USB port, SATA to USB Adapter used, anyone can read the files on the drive and copy any they like.
An image, in Mac terms, is One file, compressed or uncompressed, with a DMG file extension so before anyone could directly copy files from it they would first need to burn, restore and expand, it to some type of media like a hard drive. And that can be done with any Mac using Disk Utility.

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Having trouble creating NetRestore images.

I am pulling out what little hair I have on this one, so any help is greatly appreciated.
I am creating a NetRestore image of a 10.8.2 laptop, connected (firewaire) to a server running 10.8.2. System Image Utility does it's thing, says it's done. I can make it availlable.
This is where the hilarity ensues.
It ends up being a NetBoot image. No matter what settings I check, whether I use the "custom" option or not, every image I have made that should have ended up a NetRestore image, boots the laptops I am trying to image with the very same image, but only as a NetBoot.
I even attempted to make a NetInstall image from my Mountain Lion installer, and it does the same exact thing and it ends up making a NetBoot image.
All created images end up in a .nbi folder, all in the correct folder to be served from.
Please tell me I am missing something simple, I cannot keep creating an image of the same computer expecting a different result. Isn't that the definition of insanity?
Help?

I'm fumbling through this process as well and find it incredible that there is practically nothing from Apple which documents the full process that is required of us. All I have been able to find are a few paragraphs which tell me that I want NETBOOT images for getting my computers up to the point of being imaged and that I want NETRESTORE images for cloning of these machines. Apart from that I feel as though I'm left on my own to figure out HOW I'm supposed to make it work.
That being said, I can't tell you what is wrong in your specific case but I can offer two suggestions:
1) I was told on 3/1/13 by a senior apple enterprise guy that you can't perform the IMAGE creation on the server if the two machines have different hardware. Lets say you have your laptop connected to an imac running the server app...you can't boot your laptop into TARGET DISK MODE (TDM) with firewire/thunderbolt to the imac and run the SYSTEM IMAGE UTILITY and expect the process to give you what you desire. I've proven to myself that you can do it but I was told flat out that this won't work because the machine that runs the SIU will build an image for that type of hardware and you can't then push the image out to a different machine. So in this case you end up with an imac image that you couldn't deploy to your laptops, even though the source image came from a laptop.
Apparently you will need to use a 2nd laptop in this scenario to run the SIU; or you can boot the machine onto another volume and run the SIU from that volume against the source volume. You could do this by booting the machine into recovery mode using R at startup and use the restore options to put a clean O/S onto an external drive-then boot to that drive and run SIU against your source.
2) I've found something called the PENN STATE MACADMINS
http://macadmins.psu.edu
they have published lengthy videos and associated PDFs of those presentations which are supposed to help folks like us. The problem that I'm running into with what is currently posted is that it is for 10.7, not 10.8. I'm currently wading through it and trying my best to work out the differences myself.
-good luck

Images on more DVDs

Hi, we use Imaging for cloning machines, it's very useful. We tried to use
it as "local" and it works fine. We thought that we can use it for create
image of a standard PC and spread or all over the country to make easier
and faster the installation. We tried "local" and it's ok... but if we
needed more than one DVD (or CD?). Is there a way to manage multiple
archive on more supports? Thank you. F.

Perhaps http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/vault/abc_203.html
Manually restoring from ZENworks Imaging CDs (tip)
Restoring an Image from Multiple CDs (tip)
I'm sure there are more, but I' can't find them just at the moment...
Shaun Pond

Boot from local disk image ?

Hi there,
I would like to now if it's possible to install snow leopard on my macbook air from a local disk image (.iso)
as anyone done it ?
Cheers,
Antoine

You cannot start up your computer from a disk image without cloning, burning, or restoring the image to an internal drive, external FireWire drive, or optical disks first, as disk images are not usable until the necessary drivers are loaded, and the drivers aren't loaded until Mac OS X has started up.
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Setting up a sysprepped image with user account customisations

I'm trying to create a sysprepped image of a Windows installation for cloning (basically, as a VM template I can clone to create throwaway test environments quickly). I'm using a new build of Windows 8.1, going into audit mode and configuring my environment,
then using sysprep to generalise the image for cloning (sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:C:\MyUnattendFile.xml).
I have customised the default account by setting things up the way I want in audit mode (under the administrator account that audit mode defaults to). My unattend.xml file has CopyProfile set to true (in the specialize phase, the only one I can set it in
IIRC). I also have my local account configured for creation in the OOBE phase in the unattend.xml file.
When I boot a copy of the sysprepped image, it starts up fine, exactly as I'd expect. But when it gets to the OOBE phase, it goes into the "Setting up a few things" sequence, and when I get the login screen and log in, I see a clean account (default
start page and taskbar, Windows theme is the default, etc). It's as if the default profile I set up hasn't been applied.
I can't tell what I am doing wrong - I saw a note somewhere (via google) that I need to set CopyProfile in the unattend file I boot from, not the one I sysprep with, but that can't be right as in this case I'm not incorporating the image into a setup process
- it's just a VM disk image that I boot normally.
I'm new to all this, and I'm a developer rather than a deployment specialist, so the discussion around images, PE boot disks, custom install disks, etc, is very confusing to me. If I'm doing something wrong, I'd appreciate any explanation someone can give
as to how to achieve what I want relatively simply.
Many thanks in advance,
Paul

I checked the log file, and I see "CopyProfileDirectory from C:\Users\Administrator succeeded. CopyProfile succeeded."
So it looks like the default profile was set up properly.
The desktop background is set correctly on the account, it's just the start page and taskbar, so the blog entry you mentioned seems like it's relevant. The problem is, there's no solution given in there :-(
From what I can see, the issue appears to be that when I initially log onto the user account created in the unattended startup, it runs the "first login" process - "Hi... We're setting things up for you... Installing your apps". So I
guess the key question is how I stop it from running that process, which is messing up the customisations I already made.
From the articles you mention, it seems like there isn't a particularly straightforward way to script the start page/taskbar changes I want. I didn't see anything that suggested I could make the changes once, then back up some data from the registry and/or
some user config files, and then set up a postinstall script to restore them (that probably still wouldn't work, as the "Hi... We're setting things up" process would probably still overwrite them :-(
If it's not possible to do things this way, maybe I'm going to have to go down the route of making a custom install disk. Is there a simple tutorial that assumes no deployment experience, and walks through the process of creating a custom install disk that
includes:
Setting the product key, the default language/locale etc (a fully unattended install)
Selecting to overwrite the whole disk, no dialog about disk partitions, etc
Create a local user account
Install various items of software (7-zip, conemu, virtualbox guest additions, chrome, probably a few others)
Pre-configure the local account with a custom start page, taskbar items, program settings like Internet Explorer home page and search providers and conemu defaults, desktop background
Set up a few other configurations (such as enabling WinRM) that can be done from an automated postinstall Powershell script.
I'm assuming this must be possible somehow, as I can't imagine corporate deployments will use the default start page. It's just how to do this as a home user. I just have a single PC, plus I can set up any VirtualBox VMs I need on it, so approaches
that talk about setting up a lab of machines and deployment servers and shares are probably out of my reach :-(
Thanks,
Paul

R12 Cloning RAC ASM to Single

Hi,
customer has 3 environments: 2 single (dev and pre) and 1 RAC-ASM (prod). We are doing the first complete refresh from PROD to PRE, then from RAC to Single, following Note Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone [Article ID 406982.1] , which has a reference to Cloning an Oracle RAC System, which refers to follow Note Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 RAC-Enabled Systems with Rapid Clone [ID 559518.1].
Following this Note, you have to create a Database Image in an stage directory, then you need unless the same database size as free space for this db image. This is not an option for very big application databases, then our idea is not to create the db image, but cloning database separatelly, following steps in Option6 in cloning Note 406982.1.
The question is, we have to refresh DB and app tier from PROD (RAC ASM) to PRE (single), colud we ignore Note " Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 RAC-Enabled Systems with Rapid Clone [ID 559518.1]" and follow Clone Article ID 406982.1 specially Option 6, recovering PROD database separatelly with rman duplicate or we have to follow Note 559518.1 and create a db image? Any experience cloning R12 from RAC to single?
Thanks,
Alvaro

Hi All
Can any one provide step to step configuration for RAC to RAC cloning in EBS R12
How to clone multi tier (2 node application Tier) using adcfgclone ... Thanks in Advance.
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Rapid Clone Documentation Resources For Release 11i and 12 [ID 799735.1]
Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 RAC-Enabled Systems with Rapid Clone [ID 559518.1]
Certified RAC Scenarios for E-Business Suite Cloning [ID 783188.1]
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Clone Tool - Multiple Images

Can a section of one image be cloned to another image?
I have a portrait shoot where best image has ladies nametag on her dress. I have other images where she is not wearing the nametag. Underneath there is a collar and I need to clone that section to replace the nametag.
Would be great if could clone from one image to the other.....
DonColorado
MacBook
Aperture 3.0

DonLoveland wrote:
Can a section of one image be cloned to another image?
Not in Aperture. You need a graphics program to do compositing. Any of them can do what you want.
Roughly, Aperture is for storing and organizing your digital photos, and developing them into the best possible pictures based on your digital negative (the file you imported). If you want to combine photos or parts of photos, or photos and text, or photos and geometric shapes, you'll need a plug-in or an external editor.
I say "roughly" because there are things Aperture does which blurs the boundary between image development and compositing -- such as cloning pixels from one part of an Image to another, adding watermarks at export, etc.
The standard practice is to use plug-ins or external editors for what you want. There are many -- they are all good, but vary greatly in price and features (and time to master ).

New DC without netlogon share is not working.

Hello all,
I have a brand new DC (server 2012) that I joined to my domain and it is not behaving. It is a clean install plus the directory services role, the static IP and the promotion, nothing else. The domain has one more DC (server 2012) and it is functioning
properly. The DNS servers of the new DC are the working DC and 127.0.0.1 as secondary. The time is the same, the name is new on a new install of windows (no images, no cloning, no restores). The promotion completed successfully with the initial replication
(it said).
Here is the output of dcdiag:
Directory Server Diagnosis
Performing initial setup:
Trying to find home server...
Home Server = IL-DC2
* Identified AD Forest.
Done gathering initial info.
Doing initial required tests
Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\IL-DC2
Starting test: Connectivity
......................... IL-DC2 passed test Connectivity
Doing primary tests
Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\IL-DC2
Starting test: Advertising
Warning: DsGetDcName returned information for \\MD-DC.mydomain.com, when we were trying to reach IL-DC2.
SERVER IS NOT RESPONDING or IS NOT CONSIDERED SUITABLE.
......................... IL-DC2 failed test Advertising
Starting test: FrsEvent
......................... IL-DC2 passed test FrsEvent
Starting test: DFSREvent
There are warning or error events within the last 24 hours after the SYSVOL has been shared. Failing SYSVOL
replication problems may cause Group Policy problems.
......................... IL-DC2 passed test DFSREvent
Starting test: SysVolCheck
......................... IL-DC2 passed test SysVolCheck
Starting test: KccEvent
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000481
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:07:50
Event String: Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not valid.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000481
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:07:50
Event String: Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not valid.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000481
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:07:50
Event String: Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not valid.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000B46
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:09:43
Event String:
The security of this directory server can be significantly enhanced by configuring the server to reject SASL
(Negotiate, Kerberos, NTLM, or Digest) LDAP binds that do not request signing (integrity verification) and LDAP simple
binds that are performed on a cleartext (non-SSL/TLS-encrypted) connection. Even if no clients are using such binds,
configuring the server to reject them will improve the security of this server.
......................... IL-DC2 passed test KccEvent
Starting test: KnowsOfRoleHolders
......................... IL-DC2 passed test KnowsOfRoleHolders
Starting test: MachineAccount
......................... IL-DC2 passed test MachineAccount
Starting test: NCSecDesc
......................... IL-DC2 passed test NCSecDesc
Starting test: NetLogons
Unable to connect to the NETLOGON share! (\\IL-DC2\netlogon)
[IL-DC2] An net use or LsaPolicy operation failed with error 67, The network name cannot be found..
......................... IL-DC2 failed test NetLogons
Starting test: ObjectsReplicated
......................... IL-DC2 passed test ObjectsReplicated
Starting test: Replications
......................... IL-DC2 passed test Replications
Starting test: RidManager
......................... IL-DC2 passed test RidManager
Starting test: Services
......................... IL-DC2 passed test Services
Starting test: SystemLog
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:20:58
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000003F6
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:50:41
Event String:
Name resolution for the name teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com. timed out after none of the configured DNS servers r
esponded.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000003F6
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:50:41
Event String:
Name resolution for the name teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com. timed out after none of the configured DNS servers r
esponded.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:51:32
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00001001
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:56:46
Event String:
The machine IL-DC2 attempted to join the domain mydomain.com but failed. The error code was 1332.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:58:07
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x0000271A
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:58:06
Event String:
The server {9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x00001796
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:59:21
Event String:
Microsoft Windows Server has detected that NTLM authentication is presently being used between clients and t
his server. This event occurs once per boot of the server on the first time a client uses NTLM with this server.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:09
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Universal Printing PCL 6 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:09
Event String:
Driver Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2010 is unknown. Contact t
he administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:12
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP (192.168.2.20) is un
known. Contact the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:12
Event String:
Driver Microsoft XPS Document Writer required for printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer is unknown. Contact
the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:13
Event String:
Driver PrimoPDF required for printer PrimoPDF is unknown. Contact the administrator to install the driver be
fore you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:13
Event String:
Driver Send to Microsoft OneNote 15 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2013 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:08:51
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x00001796
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:12:17
Event String:
Microsoft Windows Server has detected that NTLM authentication is presently being used between clients and t
his server. This event occurs once per boot of the server on the first time a client uses NTLM with this server.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:02
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Universal Printing PCL 6 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:02
Event String:
Driver Microsoft XPS Document Writer required for printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer is unknown. Contact
the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:03
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP (192.168.2.20) is un
known. Contact the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:04
Event String:
Driver PrimoPDF required for printer PrimoPDF is unknown. Contact the administrator to install the driver be
fore you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:04
Event String:
Driver Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2010 is unknown. Contact t
he administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:05
Event String:
Driver Send to Microsoft OneNote 15 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2013 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
......................... IL-DC2 failed test SystemLog
Starting test: VerifyReferences
......................... IL-DC2 passed test VerifyReferences
Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : Schema
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... Schema passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... Schema passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : Configuration
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... Configuration passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... Configuration passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : mydomain
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... mydomain passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... mydomain passed test CrossRefValidation
Running enterprise tests on : mydomain.com
Starting test: LocatorCheck
......................... mydomain.com passed test LocatorCheck
Starting test: Intersite
......................... mydomain.com passed test Intersite
I also have the following event:
Log Name: System
Source: NetJoin
Date: 3/6/2014 4:56:46 AM
Event ID: 4097
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: S-1-5-21-1062633599-3710215183-3313947919-500
Computer: IL-DC2
Description:
The machine IL-DC2 attempted to join the domain mydomain.com but failed. The error code was 1332.
Although the machine joined the domain, it is listed with the appropriate records and promoted.
Can anybody help me get a second DC for this domain running? It is kind of urgent... I tried demoting/promoting, reinstalling, I tried to do a non-authoritative restore, however, I don't have the appropriate registry key... I saw the various different posts
on similar issues, please do not paste them as I read them and I was not able to solve this.
Thank you in advance for any responses!
Best regards,
Irina

Umar,
Thank you big time for your time and help today. After we finished talking I tried the authoritative restore (vs non-authoritative the first time - didn't help) and then I started over (one more time) and created one more DC. Before promoting it I disabled
the firewall and the user control in order to make sure nothing is stopping it. I also triple checked the time. I promoted it without the DNS server and Global Catalog functions. I faced the same wall. After the promotion the SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares were
still not there.
After hours of more reading I finally found this:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/58b8cdc3-a990-46c7-a70e-a51fd6965537/sysvol-and-netlogon-shares-missing-from-new-domain-controllers-using-dfrs?forum=windowsserverpreview
and it saved me. So I followed this guy's steps and my system shares showed up on both new DCs. Then I had to wait one more hour for everything to get in sync and after that I successfully shut down my main DC and the other two took over.
Thank you again for the help!
Best regards,
Irina

Time to upgrade Quicksilver HD & DVR - What? How? Suggestions?

Hi,
I am considering upgrading my internal hard drive and replacing my existing DVR. I hate to mess with things that are not broke, but I am at the point now that I think I need to just go for it! I am not too tech savvy so bear with me. I would appreciate any recommendations and/or suggestions as what to use & how to do it the least painful way.
1. What type of internal HD do I need? Am I limited to the size I use? Can I leave the one I already have in the computer and just add another larger size internal HD - so I could have two? Do they need to be switched around?
2. What kind of DVR would be compatible with my computer and what needs to be done to computer to do the upgrade. (NEC 3550A, or Pioneer 110?)
3. Should I update to 10.3.9 before or after installing new hardware? (I've been scared to update - all works fine now. Anything I should do to avoid problems after updating????)
Here is what I have NOW:
- G4 Quicksilver 2002 (800mhz/768mg)
- Running OS x 10.3.8 & OS9 (even though I do not use OS9 that much anymore)
- Pioneer DVR-105
- 40gb internal HD(only 14gb left available!)
Sorry for all the questions. I have read some of the posts on here and think I have an idea of what I need to do, but just want to make sure and verify.
Thanks in advance,
Leah

Hi! Sounds like you're well on your way!
Any of the approaches you have mentioned should work okay. I would take the easiest approach and clone the startup volume from the 40GB drive to a partition on the 160GB drive, check the cloned volume to insure that all went well, then apply the updates to it from Software Update. When I was certain that the updates went well (no rush, give it some time), I would then clone the newly-cloned volume back to the 40GB drive, which would provide me with a complete and up-to-date backup volume that I knew was fully operational.
You can use Disk Utility's Restore option to create the clone, but I'd recommend Super Duper or CarbonCopyCloner, which are faster and less quirky. The links are below.
As long as you do not choose the option to clone to a disk image, the cloned volume will be bootable (if you make a disk image clone, you can't boot to it because you have to open/expand the image before you can do anything with it). Just clone one volume to another volume and it will be a bootable duplicate of the original volume.
You may boot from either the master or slave drive. It's recommended that the master drive be the startup drive for better efficiency, but it isn't essential. When two drives operate on the same bus, the master drive gets priority from the controller when both drives need to access the CPU at the same time. Since the system drive is the most critical one in relation to data flow with the CPU, it normally is set as master. This only affects your Mac's speed when both drives need access at the same time, though. Otherwise, it makes no difference whether you're booted from the master or the slave.
You can switch the drives around at any time if you wish - just be certain that the jumpers are reset when you change their locations on the ribbon cable.
Concerning "junk", the only time I do a fresh install of the OS is when there's a major upgrade, such as going from Panther to Tiger. That's when all my "junk" that's hidden in various folders all over the place gets thoroughly cleaned out... Installing everything from scratch on an OS update for me just seems to be too much work for the benefit that's gained.
Some third party applications tend to put required files in non-standard locations, which is one reason to be leery of copying apps over, rather than reinstalling them... the supporting files are easy to miss. Unless you have a lot of junk to get rid of, I'd stick with a clone of the whole works, weeding things out bit-by-bit afterwards, if you must. After all, you will then have a bootable clone for backup, if you mistakenly toss the wrong thing and have problems.
You are going to have two drives with a total of three volumes. Particularly as you use the second partition on the 160GB drive, please remain aware that there's no way to backup 160GB to a 40GB drive. As your data storage increases, you might consider budgeting for yet another drive somewhere down the line...
Here's the links I mentioned:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Gary
1GH DP G4 Quicksilver 2002, 400MH B&W rev.2 G3, Mac SE30 Mac OS X (10.4.2) 5G iPod, Epson 2200 & R300 & LW Select 360 Printers, Epson 3200 Scanner

What program for backing up my windows-partition?

hey. i recently made a new partition using boot camp assistant.
its formatted as ntfs with windows 7. the problem is, i need more space.
the logical thing to do is to clone the windows-partition from os x, then delete it.
this way i could just make a new one with more space, and restore the image i cloned earlier.
ive seen many giving winclone a chance for this specific job.
i also tried winclone, but i encountered a problem which is (according to many people) due to the fact that
winclone has certain issues/problems with cloning a partition with windows 7.
after around 20 seconds into the cloning process, i get an error message.. probably
because of what i mentioned above.
a quotation "Winclone on Snow Leopard (10.6) has an issue cloning Windows 7 (NTFS) partitions. Disabling compression in Preferences may resolve this."
i would like to check in the preferences of winclone to see if disabling this compression might do the trick,
the only problem is - i cannot locate any preferences.. anywhere. how come?
and, is there a better and just as simple alternative to winclone out there, to pull this job?

Your question is a Windows question really and has nothing to do with a Mac or OS X. You may find some help in the Boot Camp forum though. Click Apple Support Communities they type Boot Camp.
Good luck.
Roger

Restore from back up does not recognize time machine drive

My wife's hard drive in her 2010 MB Pro decided to give up the ghost a few days ago, so I purchased a new hard drive for her, booted from the Snow Leopard Install disc that came with the computer. However, after the installation is complete, when it gives the option to "Restore from backup", it will not locate the drive with the Time Machine Backups. The drive with the time machine backups is a dedicated 500 Gig Seagate External, that is set up on the network through our Airport Extreme. When I plug the drive directly into the computer, the drive doesn't even show up on the list. When I plug it back into the router it will recognize it as the Time Machine Disk, but will say "Connection Failed" when I try to connect with it. I have watched several youtube videos and read several blogs, and it looks so easy, simply click on "Restore From Backup" and bang! You're in business, but my drive and its backups won't even show up!
After going through with the intitial set up, I can click on the Time Machine Icon, and choose to view other Time Machine disks, and it shows up there, and I can see about two (2) years worth of back ups; however, each time I boot from the install disks, it still doesn't show up in the "Restore from Backup" mode. Migration assistant shows the files, but when I migrated them, it says that I do not have permission to view the files. Also, when I enter the Time Machine it only shows a blue folder with "Macintosh HD" on it, and when I try to simply "Restore" that folder, it will start transfering files for about an hour (Maybe get up to 10-15 Gigs, and then it will say that it cannot replace or over right "Systems", and then stop the transfer.
Thinking that some of the drives were from when we upgraded to Lion, I redownloaded Lion, and it is more of the same.
I am in a really tight spot here, because I have been faithfully using Time Machine Backups, and was told that if a situation like this ever occurred I would be good to go with a new hard drive, or even a new computer. We have about 80 Gigs (not kidding) of family photos on the computer, and those are precious to my wife, so if nothing else I would just like to get those off of the drive.
If anyone could provide me with any tips as to
1) How to make Restore from Backup recognize the drive; or
2) Migrate the files, but actually have permission to view them; or
3) Any other way to Restore from Time Machine that I may be overlooking,
I would greatly appreciate it.

Well the first thing you should do is have a local professional image the TimeMachine drive to another drive, then you can install Data Rescue on your computer and use that to read the 1's and 0's of the imaged drive directly and recover any files out of the morrase that is TimeMachine.
TimeMachine is a freaking eyecandy abortion, when it screws up, it screws up royally. However it's easy and better than nothing for computer newbies who tend to delete stuff by accident.
Computer professionals prefer "imaging" or "cloning" which makes a exact duplicate of a drive in every detail and accessability. Carbon Copy Cloner is the choice software for that.
If you not comptuer savvy or want to take a risk, then I'd advise you to get a local PC/Mac data recovery expert to recover your files, they are still on the drive and somewhat accessible, but if you fool around too much TM can delete them as it "copies" your present new boot drive. Then data recovery could cost thousands for platter dissection if the TM drive is overwritten/updated by TM software.
So to be safe, get profesisonal data recovery help, and not the clueless types at the Genius bar.
FYI, once a TM drive has been infected with Lion, you can't use it with SL.
So it's best to stop and get a image, then decide to play with the image or allow the pro's to recover your files before they are really gone forever.

Backup/clone my windows 7 partition in mac os x. what program?

hey. i recently made a new partition using boot camp assistant.
its formatted as ntfs with windows 7. the problem is, i need more space.
the logical thing to do is to clone the windows-partition from os x, then delete it.
this way i could just make a new one with more space, and restore the image i cloned earlier.
ive seen many giving winclone a chance for this specific job.
i also tried winclone, but i encountered a problem which is (according to many people) due to the fact that
winclone has certain issues/problems with cloning a partition with windows 7.
after around 20 seconds into the cloning process, i get an error message.. probably
because of what i mentioned above.
a quotation "Winclone on Snow Leopard (10.6) has an issue cloning Windows 7 (NTFS) partitions. Disabling compression in Preferences may resolve this."
i would like to check in the preferences of winclone to see if disabling this compression might do the trick,
the only problem is - i cannot locate any preferences.. anywhere. how come?
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Create a VMware snapshot before promoting domain controller

Dear expert,
I have created a new guest OS in VMware ESXi 4.1 according to the following procedures:-
1. Install windows 2008 R2 standard
2. Configure network information
3. Join the server to the domain
4. Run windows update
As I will promote the member server to domain controller. Therefore, I have taken the snapshot for the member server before running dcpromo. The aim of the snapshot is to make it easier to fall back if the promotion screws up.
When the promotion screws up, I will perform the following steps to re-promote the member server to domain controller.
1. Restore snapshot for the member server
2. May need to execute metadata clean up for the member server on existing domain controllers
3. Re-run dcpromo to re-promote the member server to domain controller.
I would like to know if the above procedures are correct when the promotion screws up.
Thank you for your kind assistance.

Dear expert,
I would like to know if the above procedures are correct when the promotion screws up.
Thank you for your kind assistance.
I can not represent a positive response to this procedure. When you join a computer to the domain, the computer establish a live connection with the domain controller which is called Secure Channel. Imaging and cloning is one of the things which break the
secure channel. Since you are using 2008 R2, the imaging/cloning procedure will be problematic for you now or near future. So I do not recommend it.
If you have 10 computers or so in your whole domain it may be possible to do so because troubleshooting 10 computers in a domain is not a difficult task.
One thing to keep in mind is that promoting a domain controller is enough important which you should not do things like that about it. If everything goes bad during the promotion you may just need a metadata cleanup (rarely), so what is the point of cloning?
At worst you do a re-install of Windows. I prefer it this way.
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I use it on every image for cloning so that I can check one section at a time. For this reason, I've now gone back to CS5, but also because CS6 crashes on me and it sometimes gets stuck on Auto Saving files (possibly because they're big).

This is easily reproduced. Just click and hold on the scroll bar for the main image preview.
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With Photoshop CS6, it just immediately starts repeating, without the longer initial delay.
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I have to ask (of any Adobe folks reading), why would scroll bar operation be changed in this way?
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I can't figure out how to adjust the quality of the clone tool, it has very large pixels now - can anyone help?

Noel, Nancy,
Here is an enlarged example of a cloned image showing the problem I'm having. I was on the phone for 1/1/2 hours, and even shared the screen with Adobe, they were useless!
Hopefully you can see the very large pixels around the edge of the cloned area. I can't figure out how to make them smooth (smaller) like the image I cloned from.
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