Disk Utility or Super Duper

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neuby

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I have an external hard drive that currently has a Virgin Safari OS on it. My Laptop has Tiger. I want to clone my laptop hard drive, reformat it, install a fresh copy of Tiger, then migrate all my apps and prefs over from the external hard drive. I would like to keep the Safari installation, but everyone recommends creating a 'bootable clone' on the external hard drive. If I do this, won't that screw up the existing boot information (Safari) currently on that external hard drive?

Can I clone to a disk image, then mount that image when I need to migrate back? Can one BOOT from a disk image? (Doubt it, but hey- who knows?)

I am uncomfortable just dumping the contents of the hard drive into the existing drive, as it allready has a ton of stuff on it, with layers and layers of folders etc. There is plenty of room available (more than the size of the internal drive), but I want the clone copy to go into a single folder/image so I know what is from the clone, and what was there on the external originally.

Suggestions?

PS - what does 'Super Duper' or 'Carbon Copy Cloner' do that disk utilities can't? Why are they worth money rather than using the included software?
 
To answer some of your questions...

neuby said:
I have an external hard drive that currently has a Virgin Safari OS on it.

This is new to me, I'm not familiar with the "SAFARI" operating system.

Can I clone to a disk image, then mount that image when I need to migrate back?

Yes you can.

Can one BOOT from a disk image? (Doubt it, but hey- who knows?)

No you can't.

PS - what does 'Super Duper' or 'Carbon Copy Cloner' do that disk utilities can't? Why are they worth money rather than using the included software?

Cabon Copy is Free.
Super Duper has many extra features that Disk utility has not.
I especially like it's ability to update the "changed only files" when updating a Clone. Only takes a few minutes, which encourages one to keep your clones up to date.

jb.
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jbarley said:
This is new to me, I'm not familiar with the "SAFARI" operating system.
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Hmm - some dang cat or other - I guess I killed it while on a Safari! Wait - I got it, Panzer? Jaguar? Cheetah? Leopard? OS 10.3 win a prize? ;-)

Thanks for the response! I will give it a shot (creating a disk image, not a bootable disk)
 
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