diskimage too big?

[arri]

hi

i want to create a (back-up) disk-image of an imac g5 with a certain configuration (tiger+updates, custom-made/-installed software and libraries etc..). but doing this, disk utilty complains that there's not enough free space on the target disk.
the entire disk in the iMac has a capacity of 160 Gb, but there's only around 16Gb used.
i've created (bootable) diskimages before, and usually the resulting diskimage s are about the size of the amount of data.
the target-disk has at least 60Gb of free space, which should be plenty..
but in this case it seems as if disk-utility tries to create an image of over 16 Gb.

has anyone an idea of what's going wrong?

thanks
arri

 

[edadams]

Arri

I find disk utility to be rather buggy when it comes to creating back-ups of drives. Personally I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do this, just select "make disk image" in prefs.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
This method is best done booted from another drive

Regards
Ed

 

[arri]

i created images succesfully several times in the past using disk-utility.
what bugs do you experience? like the one i run-into now:?

anyway, i've used ccc before, and i just checked to see if it also supports block-level restores, and it does! this makes the restore process much faster as it directly copies whole blocks instead of individual files...

so i'll give ccc a try again.
still strange that diskcopy gives so much trouble.

thanks for your respons
arri

 

[bobw]

Try trashing Disk Utilities plist file.