that would work. you can create a sparse image of the drive as an image file on another volume. the beauty about this is that only those places that have data will be copied. ANything without data will simply be ignored (as a zero space allocation). THis generally only works if you create a sparse image volume to mimic a hard dis and then do a copy of all the files inside the partition. its not exactly a bit for bit backup, but it serves as a stopgap.
-eric On Sep 11, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: > there's an "image" function in disk utilitity. would that work or do > anything? it's in the tolbar with firstaid, restore, etc. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 11, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> I mentioned dd. Believe me, its a lot better than msbackup. the last time I >> used MS Backup, it missed a number of files in my user settings directory. >> so, these days, I backup the windows partition to an external drive as an >> image file. I do so once per week and only keep 2 consecutive backups. THis >> way, I have the next most recent and the most recent backups on hand should >> something be amiss. >> >> -eric >> >>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 5:50 AM, - wrote: >>> >>> >>> Someone mentioned "dd" as a backup utility in terminal. Ditto and rsync >>> can perform the same function. In google use "os10 backup" and one of the >>> names for tons of web sites for using them as backup. >>> >>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Joe Quinn wrote: >>>> >>>> What are some good back up programs that will back up my Mac OS X drive as >>>> well as the Boot Camp partition? I think I'm going to need it. :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> XB >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
