Timeline for backing up an OSX image to an NTFS drive?
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| May 24, 2015 at 15:05 | comment | added | MadHatter | Soppose one creates a .dmg image of the installed system with Disk Utility, saving it on an external drive, no matter if NTFS or some other format. How you can boot that image and restore it onto the original disk? | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:50 | vote | accept | tdc | ||
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:50 | comment | added | tdc | Perfect -- thank you so much. I will use Disk Utility for imaging a backup of my entire drive and then my user-specific files I will backup with Crashplan. I'll vote you best answer as soon as I am able. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:39 | comment | added | bmike♦ | We should split this off to a new thread - but 1) No - plan is file based, so you'll want it and a periodic image from Disk Utility if you need periodic snapshots. 2) crash plan runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | tdc | Great! last couple of questions (thank you very much for all your help): 1) does crashplan allow a full image backup, or just specific files/folders? I'd like to preserve my apps, settings, et al in entirety, and then incrementally backup these changes as time goes on. 2) crashplan allows OSX to backup to NTS? Thanks again. :) | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:35 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:34 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Yes - crash plan is set and forget. Two installs and automatic, incremental, efficient backup. It solves the larger need and not so much you needing to own the tech stack on how backups happen. Also, you could either do a periodic full disk image or just rely on Recovery HD to restore the OS should you need a full restore after say a hardware failure. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:32 | comment | added | tdc | Thanks for your reply -- I'm not really looking for a cloud solution as I'd like to simply back the image up to a local NTFS drive. I haven't looked through all the links you provided yet, do any of the solutions you posted allow that? I'd like a software solution so I can somewhat set it and forget it. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:28 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:24 | comment | added | bmike♦ | And I realize this is a bit of a glib answer, but your question is basically, how can I re-implement a cloud backup solution which is not an easy task. The software needed for encapsulating HFS+ and storing it on NTFS is no different than putting the data anywhere over the network. Actual cloud storage has lots of downsides, but your problem seems equivalent to me technically. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:22 | history | answered | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |