Making image from a new mac?

[huy12]

Hello

I just bought a Macbook and installed programs and stuff on it, took me a while to do it.

I was wondering if some of you guys on this forum knew how to make a image from the macbook itself into a CD/DVD or a HD.
If you do, could you guys give me link or name to the program (free or demo)and a guide would be nice.

I dont want to install all these programs again, so just having a image would be very nice and spare me time if something happends to my macbook;D

Thanks in advance

 

[chscag]

Buy an external USB or Firewire hard drive at least as large as the hard drive of your MacBook and use one the very good cloning programs available:

Carbon Copy Cloner = http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

SuperDuper = http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

There's also Time Machine which comes with Leopard. Learn how to use it.

Regards.

 

[huy12]

Thanks for reply, going to try out the programs you listed.
I have a Firewire cable and a HD on 70 GB.
If I manage to make a backup of my macbook, are you able to use the backup (image?) on other macbooks/mine with help of another macbook and disk untilities?

Thanks ion advance!