hi a friend of mine has a desktop ,in the past he used w7 now ,his desktop has only 1 ssd crucial with osx sierra he asked me to create an entire disk image of his ssd (sata) i bought image for windows/linux & dos and i can use macrium but reading and looking around i found that only clonezilla can do it is that true? do i need to use clonezilla?? or can i use other software ? image for linux is linux based should do it please can you help me with some advises ,never create an image of osx i would like to use my external hard disk to save the image , it's formatated with w10 ntfs thanks
Does your friend's osx sierra installation not include its own disk utility for creating backup images? Does this Lifewire article help?
hi i don't know , he asked to me if i can do it i would like to do offline ,seeing i have no experience about creating image of osx thanks
Version 2.75 - September 30, 2012 Added support to backup used areas of HFS+ (iMac) partitions instead of the entire partition sector-by-sector. Boot your IFL usb and backup the whole disk. Yes Clonezilla should also work. Just treat your Mac OSX disk as a Linux OS and back it up. I would back up the OSX disk using both IFL and Clonezilla.
hi thanks i will try both , they should work and backup 100% about IFL , can it restore on a different drive? just to know ,because clonezilla can not do it may i disable core storage if i want to restore with clonezilla or image for linux? thanks Oliverjia
hi but i have to buy them i bought terabyte image for windows/linux/ dos and clonezilla is free and the machine is not an apple , i would like to boot offline via bios thanks
Just use Disk Utility to create an image. Steps to take: 1. During startup hold down Command-R to boot in the MacOS Recovey enviroment. 2. Select Disk Utility and press continue. 3. Choose your OS drive (or the OS partition - if you want to backup only the MacOS+the recovery Enviroment) in the left column. 4. Press "New Image" button at the top bar. 5. Give a name for your image and select the partition/folder where you want to save it and press "save". 6. It will take 5-6 minutes to create the image. Panagiotis
hi this is what do you suggest i'm not familiar with osx i prefer image for linux or clonezilla usb stick to do it ,or other free program thanks Panagiotis
I have used clonezilla on macs but should work. IFL/IFW works fine with HFS+, just backup both the OS partition and the MacOS recovery partition. Panagiotis
Although Time Machine would be ideal, it doesn't work with NTFS drives. This is the next best thing I've used when I had a Macbook: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
hi just a question is there a way to restore an osx image to a smaller ssd or bigger ? for example from a ssd of 275GB to 250GB ssd thanks
Only if you use MacOS disk utility. Image for windows and clonezilla cannot resize mac partitions. ps. if you use other tools (than disk utility) for imaging you should disable core storage https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO109622.html Panagiotis
hi but to reatore an image with image for linux should i change the global settings ? and what's about clonezilla ? do they include clover? thanks Panagiotis
It depends from the settings that you have. The default ones (with 1mb allignment are fine). clover? You mean the bootmanager? You need to backup the efi partition for that. Panagiotis
