easy way to backup to repartition your drive

[mascarasnake]

There's a nifty ute - Carbon Copy Cloner - that will do the same thing,
but also allow you to schedule automatic backups. If you use it in
conjunction with psync, it will do incremental b-ups so only new files
or modified files are backed up. All other files are left alone Great
time saver). psync even transfer your resource forks by default. Bob
awesome utility combo. You can get them both here:

<http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html>



On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 22:34, David Hacker wrote:
> I just got a new eMac and I had configured it all and I really didn't 
> want to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall from scratch, so I got 
> to thinking of other ways.
> 
> An easy way to back up your partition, if you have an external drive or 
> another hard drive, is to start up from the OS X install CD and open 
> Disk Utility.  Then create a new disk image on the external drive that 
> is big enough to hold the contents of your current OS X installation.  
> Then you can use the restore function, by putting your hard drive as 
> the source image and the disk image you created as the destination.  
> Then you can reformat the internal hard drive and make your smaller 
> partition and free space for linux.  Once you have your new partiton 
> just go back to restore and put the disk image in the image section and 
> your new blank hard drive partition as the destination.  Once it's done 
> just reboot and everything is just as you left it, but on a smaller 
> partiton.
> I just thought it might be something helpful to put on the new FAQ page 
> that Clint is working on.
> Hope this helps some of you to save time.
> 
> BTW, I just got Gentoo up and running on my new eMac 1.25 GHz with the 
> ATI Radeon 9200 and the video wasn't a problem at all with the 2.6.4 
> kernel.  I am going to try YDL but I have heard that there are a lot of 
> problems with it for some reason on this new model eMac.
> 
> 
> David C. Hacker, DVM
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> New Salem, ND 58563
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