Re: HFS+ backup tool
"Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see that partimage doesn't work on big-endian machines, but I am
> leery of using a tool like dar because I don't know if I'll easily be
> able to replicate any voodoo (e.g. boot sectors) that Mac OS X needs
> to boot. Can anyone recommend a backup tool for HFS+ partitions
> (journal is turned off) that is better than dd + gzip (which
> compresses a 12GB partition with 4.1GB of data into 7.8GB)?
To answer my own question, Mac OS X's disk utility works fine for this
kind of thing, and even adds compression, making the resulting .dmg a
nice 1.8GB size. You have to do this from a separate installation,
which is easy enough to pull off from MOL and Linux.
Andrew
> Thanks in advance.
>
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