But even Apple Disk Utility (Restore tab) is doable, and there are those HELP menu and tips, instructions - and online.Īnd if you want to backup and manage PCs and Macs, then something like HP Media Server using Windows Home Server PP3 which supports SuperDuper, TimeMachine, iTunes, as well as for Windows backup and recovery, is top notch. The pdf guide for #1 cloning utility for Mac is SuperDuper. You are going to need drives no matter what to get back on your system's feet, to boot and work from, and to recover to (it is possible to get by with a partitioned hard drive). iso file to the left pane in Disk Utility.

Launch Disk Utility (Applications Utilities Disk Utility).

Given an ISO file (image. There is a way to do this with GUI, but you can be burning the disc before that GUI starts up. Just install OS X to an external USB drive. Note: To burn most ISOs, you can use Apples Disk Utility (Disk Copy in older versions). This tech-recipe desribes how to burn an ISO image from the command line on a Mac. Luckily I guess Apple Mac OS has TimeMachine which is one step in the right direction but not enough. Thinking backups are strange or difficult, or not needed? No. It is the underlying format of the drive. Intel Macs uses GPT or as Apple says, GUID, which is the default. Mac OS X won't install to the old PPC PowerMac map.

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