Does anyone know if Ghost works on Mac's ?
If it does not is there the equivalant that does with with Mac's

thanks

Richard

Have a look at CarbonCopyCloner and see if it fits the bill.

Cheers for that Class_a
I will download a copy and give it a go tommorow

Scoobynet strikes again

Richard

What OS you on?

What are you trying to do - if it's just to backup the HDD, then just copy it. The OS will handle it without a 3rd party package.

if you're compressing it, then that's a different kettle of fish.

If you're creating a disc image, TOAST will do that anyway.

The ethos behind MACs was that if you're backing up the harddrive, you can just copy it!! :)

Just the same as extensions etc can be copied from different macs etc.....

The beauty of a proper OS :cool:

Hope this helps (deffo works on OS9.2 - haven't tried it with OSX, but should be the same)

Dan :)

Scoobydoo555

Not too sure what Mac OS yet as not seen the machine, All I know is that the hard disc is a little stuffed and the customer has requested a replacment hard drive. - So could do with a direct copy of whatevers on the HD.
Just want to appear as if I know a little about mac's ( though I know next to nothing about them !!)

thanks for the help

Richard

you should be able just to either copy it (as per master/slave on the PC) or burn it onto a load of CDs.....

Best to find out what OS it is... :)

Dan

Just quickly checked my mac - running OSX. Copied the system folder straight off (just dragged it to a seperate folder) :)

Deffo works on OS9.2 & OSX :)

Bear in mind that with the MAC, you can do a fresh install of the OS, and it will put your "old" OS in an "OLD system folder" - you can then drag the bits you want (extensions & programs :cool: etc) from the OLD to the fresh install!!! :)
This might sort out the chaps HD - just reinstall (if he's got the system CD!) :D

try do that on the PC with your DLLs ;)

Hopefully the HD isn't knacked

Hope this helps

Dan

Unfortunately you can't just copy the /System folder in Mac OS X. It's not as easy as the classic Mac OS days!

Here's a good page on the topic http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html

Ahh OK. So you physically drag the System folder, but it won't necessarily work (due to the disk permissions etc)

Am I correct in that assumption?

So, following down this path, you can't drag the system to say, Toast, and burn off a basic system to run your mac off - a la the good old days of OS9?

Dan

That's correct. There's more to a Mac OS X system than just "/System" That's why you now need to use something like CCC to create bootable CD's, rather than the old skool :D way of just burning a blessed System Folder onto a disc.

You can of course install Mac OS X onto an external FireWire disc and boot from that in an emergency (the iPod is great for this, a system rescue tool and a music player in one) Don't do it regularly though as the iPod hard disc isn't designed to withstand the thrashing that an OS will give it!