Disk Superduper

Before anyone undertakes a major OS leap, PLEASE: 1. Purchase an external FireWire hard drive 2. Download Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper (simple yet effective cloning applications) 3. Run disk utilites on current startup disk AND blank external FW 4. Locate and read all related upgrade path information

I checked permissions using disk utility and it did not find any incorrect permissions. ...

So, SuperDuper creates a clone, not a disk image, correct? ...

I ran diskwarrior and rebuilt the directory thinking that would solve it and superduper still will not finish a clone. ...

cloned EVERYTHING from my main disk onto a formatted ipod, i can still boot up into my ipod, which is now running panther, while my main disk is on Tiger. didn't miss a file, and very intuitive to use. also free! ...

At first I though the directory structure must be corrupted, so I tried to fix that with Disk Utility and TechToolsPro 4.0.4. Symptoms presisted, so I started to suspect that the controller in the enclosure was at fault. ...

Anyway, I tried to repair the problem with disk utility, no go. ...

You have to "scan a disk image for asr" to change it to do a sector by sector copy. If you don't the restore takes for ever. ...

CCC and SuperDuper will both get the job done. CCC is more for getting disk images setup in a lab. More of it's preferences are geared toward that. SuperDuper has feature that are geared toward just backing up your system before doing an upgrade. ...

file. When the file is copied, it is written to the target disk in one chunk. Then it moves on to the next file, which is written as one big chunk adjacent to the previous chunk. ...