[TALA]

Originally Posted by OSX2009

Is this still necessary if I am making a full disc image (not just cloning the partition but the entire disc)? I was under the impression that if I made a full disc image it would also copy all the data from the hidden EFI partition.

Does super duper or ccc copy the hidden files or do you have to run DelEFI to restore THE CLONED DRIVE. I have been trying disk utility but just can't clone the drive from the install USB/DVD.

[JustAMacUser]

Originally Posted by TALA

Does super duper or ccc copy the hidden files or do you have to run DelEFI to restore THE CLONED DRIVE. I have been trying disk utility but just can't clone the drive from the install USB/DVD.

I'm pretty sure you'll still need the DellEFI and BootMaker after restoring the cloned volume. The reason being that CCC and SuperDuper use a file-based copy system and therefore do not copy the partition structure.

If you want a REALLY exhaustive backup, you'll have to use a block-based copy method such as the Terminal dd command. It's definitely not user-friendly but it would retain everything. Keep in mind that the dd command can copy the partition structure so using it to move to a larger hard drive would require additional steps.

[mech]

I have a setup similar to mechdrew: I use timemachine to backup incrementally onto 1 partition of a 500GB external drive. on another partition i have a disk utility created image of the OSX install, which is completely bootable by itself from the external drive partition (with the help of the USB boot disk). The dd option is good/easier if you will be porting from, say STEC 64GB to RunCore 64GB, in which case it would just be the commands outlined above (is there a typo in the second one? "od" vs "of"? not sure).

MEch