OS 10.1 - how to back up system and files?

[Solaris]

Won't dump do the job?

dump 0uf /file/to/dump/to /fs/to/backup

[simX]

I finished reinstalling the Developer Tools from October 2001 that I redownloaded, and Disk Copy 6.4 is NOT in there. I have checked multiple times, and it is definitely not there.

GadgetLover, are you SURE that paid members of the ADC do not receive a different copy of the Developer Tools disk image? That would definitely explain the problem.

Solaris: I suspect that dump would not copy resource forks, which are essential when copying.

[GadgetLover]

I'll re-install it myself and take a look. . . .

[simX]

Make SURE that you download the FREE copy, not the one that you might get from your ADC membership, cause that might make the difference. Even though you might find it in your developer tools, it's definitely not in mine, I can tell you that, unless I've VASTLY overlooked something and Sherlock is acting up.

[GadgetLover]

Found this while trying to find Disk Copy 6.4 ...
(don't know if this is still valid, but who knows) . . .

Originally posted by Ed010
There is a copy in my public folder at apple i-tools.
My user name is ed010. If you haven't used i-tools open an account sign on and you will see directions for finding public folders.
I think I also saw it on carracho.

Originally posted by Paul Derby
Ed010, thanks for making Disk Copy 6.4 available. I've used it to CLONE 22GB of 9.2/10.1 files from a 48GB drive to an 80GB drive and back. It worked flawlessly. I did notice when running Disk Warrior on the just cloned target disk that the directory was quite fragmented. A quick pass with Disk Warrior cleaned up the directory nicely.

Where do you get copies of Disk Copy? I'd love to keep up with this utility as Apple adds features. Are there plans to put the CLONE capability in the OS X version?

Thanks for helping those of us that want to backup. This is a great solution for my situation. I work/live in 3 different locations and have a large external FireWire drive in each location. Now I can make an exact copy of my PowerBook's internal drive as I move from location to location for backup/disaster recovery.

Originally posted by Paul Derby
I was able to get a copy of Disk Copy 6.4 with the new CLONE command. It does a great job of cloning my internal drive to an external FireWire drive. I've booted both 9.2 and OS X 10.1 from the external drive with no problems. So now I have a way to make backups (gosh I wish there was something like Retrospect for OS X that supported stand alone machine incremental backups).

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Unrelated: While plowing through the Mac OS X 10.1 Developer Tools, I was reminded of one of the reasons why I first spoke to Apple about the tool set. Burried deep within the package (Applications "Extras", I believe) is a nifty little hidden gem (among other great utilities all power-OSX-users should have): a carbonized version of SimpleText. It's a must have; that way if ever you open up a simple text document (not TextEdit) it won't boot up that damn Classic Environment which some of us don't use all the time. Cool, eh?

[Andy Hughes]

Thanks to all who replied. I got disk copy 6.4 from ed010's itools public folder, and will try the "clone" method, and also play with the unix cp command provided here.

What a great forum!

Andy Hughes

[efoivx]

Just a word of advice IF anyone decides to use the command line to do a cp...
cp will NOT copy resource forks if you so happen to have any apps that are Classic apps they will be damaged.

the way to copy to be sure that resource forks stay intact is.

diito -v -rsrcFrok (target) (destination)

please remember what the prior poster said about looping.
SimX Wrote

DO NOT do a "cp / /Volumes/60gigharddrive", because, for obvious reasons, this will be an infinitely looping copy, since /Volumes/60gigharddrive IS on /, so it will copy all contents onto the backup again, but then it has to copy THOSE again, and so on and so forth.

Because of the way UNIX works, volumes are mounted in the /Volumes directory, but the partition/hard drive you are currently running off of is the root folder, or / . An example:

cheers

[efoivx]

I'm sorry, I forget where i found this out. It may have been an Apple til.
And yes I did spell it wrong... thanks for catching that.

Cheers