Scan Image for Restore?

I created a disk image last night to prepare for my upgrade to Snow Leopard and then this morning moved to the final step of "Scan Image for Restore" and I was wondering if anyone had any insights into how long this would take. It's been running for about an hour now and the progress bar doesn't show any progress, just shows the fast moving blue hashes in the bar. Is this normal, or is it possibly hung up on something? Note, the light on my external drive continues to blink, which makes me think it is doing something, just not sure if it is progressing and this just takes several hours, or if something is wrong. Any help is appreciated.

It can take a very long time, depending on size of the Image, and even slower via USB.
I think a much faster, better, more useful method is to clone your drive, then you'll have a bootable version of exactly what you have now.
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/

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Disk Utility: What does "scan image for restore" do?

Before restoring a disk image, I know that I need to use Disk Utility's "Scan Image for Restore…" feature.
Exactly what does this feature do?

I asked because I didn't know.
I was helping someone upgrade his PowerMac G5 from the original 80GB hard drive to a 1TB drive.
Since the G5 can accommodate two internal drives, I could have simply added the new drive and used Disk Utility's "restore" feature to migrate his data directly from the old drive to the new drive.
But it was more convenient for me to work at home so I removed the old drive, and brought it home along with the new drive.
I couldn't connect both drives to my MacBook Pro, since I only have one SATA drive dock. So I did it like this:
1. Connected the old drive to my SATA dock.
2. Create a disk image from his old drive, saving it to an external USB drive.
3. Disconnected the old drive from the SATA dock and connected the new one.
4. Restore the disk image to the new drive
Of course, when I tried step 4, I got an error message about needing to do a scan first. That's what led me to this question.
I have a follow-up question: When I created the image, I didn't bother changing the default image format, which is "compressed." If I had given the matter a little thought, I could have created a read-only image, since I would never need to change the image.
If I had used read-only, would Disk Utility have created the checksums on-the-fly when it created the disk image?

Disk Utility - Scan Image for Restore - Freeze

I backed up my wife's iBook by starting her computer in target disk to my iBook which has a huge external attached. After about an hour, the image process was complete. Apple disk utility help says next to scan image for restore (not too sure why because I'm not restoring anything unless her drive dies). I begin the scan image for restore and get the progress bar that never shows and progress. Just keeps spinning/scanning for hours and I have no option to shut if off. Can't move external to trash because it in use, etc.
Does this mean the original disk image may be bad? Do over?
I'm using Disk Image as a solution for a total disk backup if a drive fails. No messing around with reconfiguring apps, etc. (i.e. plug and play) Is this the best way to do this?
I come from the Mac Plus days. Hopefully I can contribute to the new OS discussions at some point. Thank you much!

What format is the external drive?
Is it Firewire or USB?
Does the external drive have one of those front button touch things, like a My Book?
I'm using Disk Image as a solution for a total disk backup if a drive fails. No messing around with reconfiguring apps, etc. (i.e. plug and play) Is this the best way to do this?
I prefer a Clone myself.
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Have a look at Synchronize! Pro X 6.0.5
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6897/synchronize!-pro-x
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, ...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
Does this mean the original disk image may be bad? Do over?
It can take quite awhile, and the progress bar isn't accurate at all, but it sounds like something is wrong.

Disk Utility: after creating the .DMG (compressed image) When "scan image for restore" finishes it displays "unable to scan (internal error)". Since the process was scanning for about 1 hr is this a fake warning?

External 500GB drive is partitioned with 400GB for Mac OS extended (journalling) and 2nd partition formatted today as "ExFAT".
Yesterday I tried to create a disk image of my HD to no avail - this was compressed on a FAT partition. I got a warning after running the <scan image for restore> saying "unable to scan (internal error)"
I rang Apple support who suggested formatting a partition as MAC OS extended (journalling) and choose to save the image as "read/write'. The image process stopped writing at about 200GB and then the file size jumped to 499GB (ie the size of the HD). But the process did nothing for about an hour so I foce quit disk utility (as suggested by apple support)
My current attempt was to format the external drive again; this time with a 400GB Mac OS extended (journal) format; plus a 100GB ExFAT format partition. The new image was created after about 2.5hrs with a compressed size of 149GB. However, after running the "scan image for restore" facility I got the warning message "unable to scan filename " (internal error). The process was scanning the image file according to the progress bar - this took about hour - thus the warning is a puzzle.
If anyone can say more about this error I would really appreciate knowing tips for using disk utility. The screen grab is below.
"unable to scan filename " (internal error)
thanks

Thanks for a quick reply <baltwo>. You’ve answered that it is not a fake message!
fyi: I thought that I would use my external Buffalo for two purposes; namely the smaller ExFAT partition for copying stuff to my win7 netbook. The larger partition was to be used as my imac image of SL. So this was my first attempt at using disk utility - the idea being to hold an image backup at another location. Plus I now have the Lion thumbdrive ready to upgrade from SL and so being cautious wanted to have a SL image backup
Anyway I followed the apple instructions using my mac 10.6.3 install DVD but it would appear from other discussions that <unable to scan (internal error)> is not unique to me.
I’ll get back to apple telephone support for further advice.
I would though be grateful for an “idiots’ guide to making an image backup of my internal HD that runs SL 10.6.8
eg should I have just one partition on the external USB drive? format it as Mac OS extended? create the image as compressed or read/write? Basically I’ll do whatever will work!!
thanks again

Scan Image For Restore Question...

So I made a backup image of my HD.
After running "Scan Image For Restore" this is what showed up in console...
Mar 16 17:15:38 localhost authexec: executing /usr/sbin/asr
Mar 16 17:23:19 localhost diskarbitrationd[87]: disk2s2 hfs 3ABFFEEC-D371-3B4A-A7B2-B0262310F884 Macintosh HD [not mounted]
Mar 16 17:24:59 localhost kernel: resize: max chain len 28, new table size 8192
Mar 16 17:36:46 localhost kernel: jnl: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0xd
Mar 16 17:36:46 localhost kernel: disk2s2: device is write locked.
Mar 16 17:36:46 localhost kernel: jnl: dojnlio: strategy err 0xd
Mar 16 17:36:46 localhost kernel: jnl: writejournalheader: error writing the journal header!
Does that look right?
Obviously there was an error writing the journal header because it was read only correct? What about the "strategy err"? - Is that how the log's suppose to look after running "Scan Image For Restore"?
Thanks in advance folks!
Mike

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Scanning image for restore

How does one scan or imagescan a diskimage for Restore in Disk Utility?
Hans

Thanks for your reply, Kappy. Unfortunately that didn't work. I'm trying to clone computers. Disk Utilities doesn't let me drag the mounted disk image to the source field.
The cloning, however, works great with Carbon Copy Cloner. I mount the disk image as you suggested, then select it as a source and the HD i want to clone as the target.
I'm doing all this with an external firewire drive. I boot from the external drive which has the disk image of the source computer on it. Then I tried to use Disk Utility as you suggested, but it didn't work. So I used CCC.
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Print-off the scanned images for vendor invoices

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Print-off the scanned images for vendor invoices
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display them with the required fields on the first list. Take a single CHAR field in the internal table for CHECK BOX and display that Internal Table fields.
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Asr fails to scan DMG for restore

Hi everyone,
I have an Applescript droplet that customizes an app based on the contents you drop on it, and send off some parameters to a shell script for packaging into a dmg, etc. The problem I have is that once I create the dmg and place items inside it, I am unable to scan it for restore, which is essential to distributing the new customized app. The code for my shell script is below:
#!/bin/sh
*cd /Volumes/Work/ProdIngestWorkspace*
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*cp -r /Volumes/Work/ProdIngestWorkspace/$3\ Ingest.app /Volumes/untitled/Applications*
*mv /Volumes/Work/ProdIngestWorkspace/ProductIngest.dmg /Volumes/Work/ProdIngestWorkspace/CompletedDMGs/$3Ingest$2.dmg*
*sleep 60*
*diskutil unmount /Volumes/untitled*
*sleep 60*
*hdiutil convert /Volumes/Work/ProdIngestWorkspace/CompletedDMGs/$3Ingest$2.dmg -format UDRO -o $3Ingest$2*
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diskutil is unable to unmount untitled, it keeps saying the resource is busy., so hdiutil can't convert it to read-only, and then asr can't scan it. However if I manually unmount it then try to scan it in Disk Utility, I get an error that the dmg is an invalid argument. What gives?
TIA,
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Disk image for restore won't verify

Hi - I'm preparing to send my G4 Pbook (10.4.11) for repair.
It was recommended that I make a disk image of the HD "just in case".
So I booted from the original install disc (10.3), launched Disk Util and made a new image on an external drive. Read only, not compressed. About 3 hours later I had a DI and decided to "verify" it. It would not. So I rebooted from the normal system and tried to mount the new DI. It would not and gave a message "the DMG is faulty and it may damage your hard drive if you mount it". So I trashed it, emptied the trash and used DU to erase that external drive in ready for the next try.
DU Help files are short and pretty clear. What did I do wrong? Can someone please give me a procedure I can succeed with?
TIA
d2

Don't make a disc image. You cannot boot from one and they can be finicky. They are not what you want. Instead you want to clone your hard drive to an external Firewire hard drive. It's done as follows:
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the 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.
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6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
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Create full backup image for restore

Hi,
I don't know why I'm finding this information is so difficult to locate. I've really tried to find information on my own but I guess I'll just need to create this post.
What I need is a piece of software, Apple or 3rd Party (don't mind paying) that will create a full, complete image of my iPhone 4. I won't go into the many details for this, they are many. I just want to be able to create a snapshot of my iPhone 4 so I can restore it to the exact state it is in now. I worry that using any software created by Apple will use info from my iTunes / iCloud data storage to create the image..
Let's pretend I have a computer NOT running iTunes. I want to create an image of my phone to transfer to my iPhone that will put it in the exact same state that is / it was before I do any tinkering. My iPhone 4 is not jailbroken. Nothing special.
I'd REALLY appreciate any help you might have that will steer me toward the software I need.
Thanks.

Well, thanks for the responses. I have been involved and writing code for Windows for well over 10 years. While I'm surrently not a developer I pretty much know what's going on in the WINDOWS software development environment. After MANY years I have learned to respect Apple's environment, in fact I'm actually learning to like it quite a bit. I never thought I'd be saying that.
However, in any software environment I've never gotton an answer to a question that was so direct -"you can't do that." While you may be 100% right but that answer is quite surprising given the fact that many millions of users are using Apple everyday.
There has to be an application that can give me just a cloned file from an iPhone so that it can be restored to the way it was prior to a change that might screw things up. It's the whole idea about creating a backup in the first place. In Windoes we have Ghost images and many more type utilities that will give you a file that can just be reloaded to the device. Rather it be a program, a folder, a disk...anything there has to be something unless Applr has written the whole operating system just to not allow images to be taken and then re-installed.
I really have looked for all of the applications that I find on the web and while most of them give me some of the functionally I need to accomplish creating an image, most solutions are really cumbersome. The Copy-Trans set of tools have this functionallity but haven't been designed to do, what I consider, a crucial task. In general an application would generate a (in my case) 32GB file that, with some other utility would re-load that image so that my phone would be rolled back to the state it was prior to making any other changes.
The functionality I'm looking for really doesn't even involve the "phone" part of the iPhone - it's everything else! I just want an application to get me back to the point I am right now. After generating the image I would then like to make those chages and, if they mess up my phone, I could just load the image created and I'd be back to where I was.Maybe I'm asking the question poorly but to me this is just basic functionality.
What['s important to me is backing up all of the unlicensed stuff on my iPhone. Such as pictures, contacts, notes, data in some applications as well as the apps themselves, music I've actually ripped from older CDs I've purchased and legally imported into iTunes / iPhone 4...To Me BASICALLY everything.
Does this help anyone in making the answer to my question a little more clear? This has to be a lack of a Windows person (Me) to everyone else. As I said the more I get into the Apple world of computing tools the more I think that Apple has done some Amazing things.

35mm scan images for Aperture

This is off topic but I know lots of Aperture users are also 35mm users.
I want to scan and import into my library, all my 35mm slide library.
Looking at the Nikon 5000 ED or the Powerslide 3650 to do batch images.
The Nikon scores well in research but with the cost of a batch feeder is very expensive.
Cant seem to get any feedback on the Powerslide scan results, but seems to have a good batch
feeder. Much more realistic price tho
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a little more info for you.
1. if you're scanning negative film, you'll get better batch scanning success with the slide adapter. we tried the film roll adapter but the software was not able to accurately determine the edges of the frames. with the slide adapter (and mounting all of the negatives as if they were slides), that edge determination problem went away and we can now begin a scan of 50 frames with confidence.
2. I use SilverFast. it's excellent software with options that will really help you to get the most out of your film. we typically scan using multi-scan 4x or better for greater dynamic range. SilverFast is also compatible with Leopard (although I haven't tested it fully yet), which brings me to the next point.
3. Nikon is giving up on the Mac market as far as scanners go. Much of their software has not been and will not be updated for Leopard or Intel. scanning professionals are advising people to look at other alternatives. many of the bed scanners with transparency functionality are now very good, offering excellent focus and excellent dynamic range, and templates/software that allow you to scan multiple strips at the same time.
4. SilverFast offers JPEG2000 compression, and Leopard/Aperture is now compatible with JPEG2000 which is an option if you want the best possible compression while retaining image quality.
I probably have a few more tips but they've escaped me for the moment ;–)
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Restoring .dmg image from external to Mac HD in Disk Utility: "Unable to scan image (Input/output error)"

Hi guys,
So I've got a problem with restoring the image backup I did (using Disk Utility) of my 500GB HD on my MBP which was acting weird or maybe even crashed a few months ago. After creating the backup image and putting it on my external device, I installed Mavericks back to see if everything was alright (mainly the HD) and everything seems okay.
I did try restoring the backup image through disk utility before installing mavericks (thus erasing everything again on the HD) AND after. But nothing..
The whole process starts fine and then it starts scanning the image when after maybe a good 10-15min in I get a message that says that it was unable to scan the image. I tried verifying the disk(s), everything came out "OK". Also tried scanning it through Images > Scan image for Restore... with the same results.
While searching I've seen people getting messages like "Unable to scan filename.dmg (Invalid argument)" and "Unable to scan filename.dmg
(Internal error)" but none have (Input/output error)
The screen grab is below.
I also came across something about using terminal/commands but I'm not that savvy with it, especially considering that those there had issues with either mounting or trouble finding the image.
I've also tried moving the backup image to a different external device 2TB and also the desktop because I read it may have to do with the format of the externals or maybe free space. But THEN I would get a message saying
"The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "Mac HD Backup.dmg" can't be read or written. Error code -36"
Fyi ALL my externals are HFS+/Journaled and the backup image format was compressed.
I REALLY don't know what to do next. Was it the wrong move to create a dmg image? Have I lost everything? Is there still a way out?
If anyone can help, THANKS!
2012 MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.9.3)

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider. You may have to leave the machine there for several days.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional—ask if you need guidance.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
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Unable to create a disk image for mass deployment or to restore on other

I am attempting to create a master 10.5 Leopard image that can be deployed to other Macs, but the restore process fails with the following error:
*Restore Failure. Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagedscanned/scanned for restore.*
I setup the master as I want it. I've booted from another drive and used Disk Utility to create a new image from Folder. (If I try to create a new image from drive, I get an error that the disk is in use.) I've run the checksum. I've run the scan image for restore. All process with out any errors.
The error mentioned above occurs when I try to restore the image to another computer.
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The error is: Unable to scan "disk0s3.dmg". (Invalid argument)
The disk utility log is:
2007-11-08 20:33:43 +0100: Scanning image “disk0s3.dmg”
2007-11-08 20:33:53 +0100: cannot scan read/write images.
2007-11-08 20:33:53 +0100: Unable to scan “disk0s3.dmg”. (Invalid argument)
2007-11-08 20:33:53 +0100:
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Disk Utility: Restore Failure-Source image needs to be scanned for restore.

Hello guys,
I have a .dmg (source image) that I have created from a DVD by myself (read-only format).
I am trying to restore it to a destination and a Restore Failure notification pops-up as follow:
"Restore Failure
Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagescanned/scanned for restore"
I am quite new to Mac. Half of the time, I don't really know what I am doing - but just relying on the 'Help Menu', some research for guides on the internet and most of all read-on most of the posting here in the Apple Forum for what I want to do or might have encountered. Lastly to hopefully also speak the Mac language. For example - What's a disk image? What a .dmg? What's a source image? and etc. ~Lost~
So for this case, I am totally lost as I can't seems to understand what does the Restore Failure notification mean at all as I quote above. What does it mean by the Source image needs to be imagescanned/scanned for restore? What do I do from there? How do I scanned my source image? Is there a steps that I miss out while creating .dmg from the DVD?
Could not find any scan information? What scan information? Where do I go to asked for scan information?
I am so lost that I don't even know the right question to ask or begin with.
I know what I want to do and believe it can be done with Mac. But I just doesn't seems to understand the concept of how it really works yet but to just follow blindly throughout the guides.
So please help me if possible.
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Jon Gan

Hi,
If you open Disk Utility, select the Image in the disk util sidebar, and click on Images > Scan for restore... in the menu bar, it will take care of it for you. After that you can perform a restore as you were trying to do.
They do this so that disk util can verify your data after the restore to make sure it copied exactly.

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