What you Mac guru's recommend for cloning a disc? I just bought a Mac Book Pro and I am on the learning curve from Windows. I have always used Acronis as I do an image and if I need to restore, I boot off the bootable cd and restore the image and everythe

I just purchased a Macbook pro laptop.  I want to be able to backup and restore as I did in windows with Acronis.  In Acronis I take an image of the hard drive, I can then wipe it clean, (format, Dban, etc) and boot off the acronis boot cd, go to my backup and crestore it.  After the restore Windows comes up and everything from my pc before I wiped it is now there again, no reinstalling or configuring anything.  And it takes about 10 mins or less.
I am looking for a package that will do the same for the MacBook.  Any suggestions please?
Thank you

There is no system like Acronis for the Mac platform. You can try using the buiilt in Disk Utility to create an Image of the complete Mac drive but I have found that this does not work very well as on tryiing to restore it gives errors sometimes.
You can use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable Clone of your system partition. But that is only for the System partition and not the complete drive.
If you use Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac neither of those two programs will clone the Windows side.
Neither will Disk utility as Mac's can not create or write to a NTFS partition. So some other program is need for that.

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