Comments on: Clone Your System To Save Time Restoring Backups

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:49:19 +0000

You won’t be able to clone to a flash drive since finding one big enough is likely impossible for the time being. A portable hard drive is the best way to go for disk cloning.

About your second point; are you planning on creating a clone and running it one a second computer as well?

By: Penny McGraw

Penny McGraw — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:27:57 +0000

I was wondering if a flash drive can back up my lap top files, restore points and or clone my computer the way i have it.
My last computer had a virus. And I lost everything, even the preloaded programs.
Also if I may ask. Can I USE my lap top back up to fix my other computer. So I can have programs, Like is it legal. It need windows, the whole nine yards.
Thank you; Penny M ….. from West Virginia

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By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:31:17 +0000

Pete, I appreciate you dropping by and taking the time to jot down the steps you too – I’m certain they’ll help someone reading. Will pass this around and see if I can get any restoration stories for you.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:10:35 +0000

Made the clone this morning.
1. used an external hard drive as the target.
2. You can not partition the external HD, clonezilla wants it all.
3. Booted up from bootcamp. Could not use other method, because I could not eject the MAC bootup disk at that point.
4. Followed on screen directions for live version, and chose disk to disk cloning.
5. It first cloned the MAC partition and then went on to clone the bootcamp Windows 7 version.
6. When viewing the external HD on the MAC platform you see two icons, one representing the MAC clone and one the bootcamp windows 7 clone.

Now just have to wait for a crash to see if it can restore both systems. Hope that day never comes.

If anyone has any restoration stories for bootcamp would love to hear them.

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:36:01 +0000

Good luck…if you remember would appreciate you posting the steps you followed here. Could be useful to others curious to try the same thing. Thanks!

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:52:50 +0000

Thanks, will try it next week. At least the first step. Don’t want to borrow trouble, so as long as no crash—-no try (unless I get really bored one day)

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:58:17 +0000

Hmm…I’m not 100% sure to be honest since I haven’t done it. My best guess would be to boot up using the Mc disk utility since Bootcamp is just recognizing the live disk and probably assumes you’ll mount it as a new drive.

Hope this helps a bit!

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:45:44 +0000

I got that, however my question is 1. do I select this CloneZilla boot up option from the MAC bootcamp screen. The bootcamp screen would show the MAC, Windows 7, and CloneZilla icons. Or 2. do I first boot up using the MAC program disk while holding down the “C” and then eject the MAC disk and finally insert the CloneZilla disk?

thanks

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:55:02 +0000

You’d use the live disk (or USB stick) you create to boot up on the Mac system.