Hello,
I recently picked up an old PowerPC G5 MAC. I am trying to figure out how to COMPLETELY Image a Hard Drive. I have used Acronis True Image Home for many years for everything else I have had. I looked here and there but seen to get no definitive answer.
I want to create a COMPRESSED FULL Drive Image of ALL Partitions. I plan on doing some experimentation on multi-booting Linux etc. So it will need to work like Acronis that will get the Boot record and partition info and all data once I do that also. I do not want to try doing a sector-by-sector backup as that defeats the purpose a bit of wanting to have a full compressed image that is a fraction of the data on the drive.
Acronis can do about anything like that but does not work on Macs(except for latest version(s?) but only on later Macs with later OS)
I was able to figure out with much digging that the latest OSX this will take is Leopard 10.5, I purchased and installed it. after a bit of fiddling with USB wireless unit I finally found one I have that has drivers and works with it. The OS is now updated to 10.5.8.
So that is what I have to work with. And I just want to end up with a Much Smaller Compressed Full drive image that will return the Whole Drive to EXACTLY as it was during the backup.
I have been able to do that for decades with other Computers using different programs like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image Home, so I would think it should be quite possible. :0) The way Macs split off makes things confusing as to which what will work where, when, how, on which what ya got, LOL.
Thanks for any info and Happy New Year!
I recently picked up an old PowerPC G5 MAC. I am trying to figure out how to COMPLETELY Image a Hard Drive. I have used Acronis True Image Home for many years for everything else I have had. I looked here and there but seen to get no definitive answer.
I want to create a COMPRESSED FULL Drive Image of ALL Partitions. I plan on doing some experimentation on multi-booting Linux etc. So it will need to work like Acronis that will get the Boot record and partition info and all data once I do that also. I do not want to try doing a sector-by-sector backup as that defeats the purpose a bit of wanting to have a full compressed image that is a fraction of the data on the drive.
Acronis can do about anything like that but does not work on Macs(except for latest version(s?) but only on later Macs with later OS)
I was able to figure out with much digging that the latest OSX this will take is Leopard 10.5, I purchased and installed it. after a bit of fiddling with USB wireless unit I finally found one I have that has drivers and works with it. The OS is now updated to 10.5.8.
So that is what I have to work with. And I just want to end up with a Much Smaller Compressed Full drive image that will return the Whole Drive to EXACTLY as it was during the backup.
I have been able to do that for decades with other Computers using different programs like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image Home, so I would think it should be quite possible. :0) The way Macs split off makes things confusing as to which what will work where, when, how, on which what ya got, LOL.
Thanks for any info and Happy New Year!