Skip to main content

Alternative way of taking backup of Mac

We all know the great app created by Apple, that is Time Machine. It is a brilliant application that every user should have and use it. In case you can’t manage to use Time Machine as your backup tool, you might want to try an alternative way to take one time backup. Here is another way of taking backup of your Mac using Disk Utilities.

We will use this tool to take image of your current volume which has OS in it and can be used for back up. This backup is better if you don’t have a dedicated hard drive but use it once a week or so. As soon as you get this drive, you take a backup and then can replace where you got it from.

Taking backup of your machine is way enabled you to use the newly taken image as OS whenever your machine crashes or you get another machine and you want all the files to be as it is on your older one.

Great feature, lets try and explore more.

Labels:

Comments

Anonymous said…
Thank u fo the info
Its wonderful
January 16, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Laeeq H said…
u r welcome - plz gv if there is any feedback.
January 16, 2011 at 5:04 PM
James said…
Indeed this was really great tip,I never thought about this one. This will really help in case you need the same OS on the new machine or you can say different machine. I believe you can boot from those image, isn't it?
January 16, 2011 at 5:44 PM
Laeeq H said…
Thank you James.
Yeah you are absolutely right, you have to select the source to boot your Mac from and this one would surely show you as a volume to select.
January 16, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Custom Software Development Services said…
Thank you for ideas about Backup of Mac, I will take it using my mind and best thought which will help me...thank you for the post..
January 27, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Sarah Alawami said…
I can't see the steps actually. I only see the last part about exploring the process. did I miss something?

Thanks.
January 26, 2012 at 7:51 PM
Ufo 3D said…

Great points there, thanks. And here is another relevant article, maybe someone will find it useful too
https://ufo3d.com/product-animation-marketing-strategies-ecommerce
April 1, 2020 at 9:17 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MAKING A FILE/FOLDER INVISIBLE

How to hide a file/folder using Terminal This is one of the greatest technique that I ever came across, I had to share my Mac in office and was curious about hiding confidential data. This was when I started exploring and finally came up with this solution. These commands are to be typed in Terminal. To make a file or folder invisible in Mac OS X Finder setfile -a V testfile.txt Here is goes, the file or folder is no longer visible via the Finder GUI, though it will be by Terminal. Your files are still there and you can find them via the command line and will show with an ls command. If you want your files and folders to be visible again, use this command: To make a file or folder visible again in Mac OS X Finder setfile -a v testfile.txt Now the file/folder will be visible again to the Finder, cool isn't it? Please Note: setfile is a command line utility included in Apple’s Developer Tools, which is a highly recommended optional install included on any Mac OS X install...
4 comments
Read more

ENTOURAGE TROUBLESHOOTING: CRASHES WHILE LAUNCHING - II

Entourage Crashing due to Fonts There are two fonts that are known to be one of the most popular reasons of Entourage crashing. The first one is Helvetica Fractions which is majorly responsible to cause problems, the second is Times Phonetic. In order to fix this issue, don't just disable these fonts in Font Book, but physically remove them from your system and try to launch Entourage again. Other discussed reasons are database , schedules and duplicate daemons .
Post a Comment
Read more

An introduction to Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X server is combination of Power and Style. It derives power from its strong UNIX base and the style comes from well known Apple GUI. This combination makes Mac OS X Server one of the robust server available in present time. Mac OS X Server is built on a fully compliant UNIX foundation. This battle-tested core provides the stability, performance, and security that organizations require. And full UNIX conformance ensures compatibility with existing server and application software. Mac OS X Server is the ideal platform for deploying groundbreaking enterprise applications and services. The kernel in Mac OS X Server provides superior thread management and affinity algorithms for efficient handling of multithreaded applications on the latest generation of Intel multicore processors. It also provides precise control of real-time processing requirements, allowing a user-level thread — even an unprivileged one — to precisely specify its requirements for time-sensitive operations...
3 comments
Read more